'Who is the shortstop?' Doosan is not interested in FA Ha Joo-seok → Inside infinite competition
'Who is the shortstop?' Doosan is not interested in FA Ha Joo-seok → Inside infinite competition
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Doosan Bears decided to find the main shortstop through an internal infinite competition. Ha Joo-seok is in the FA market, but Doosan did not pay attention.
Doosan suffered severe bleeding in the Stove League this year. Kim Jae-ho, who had held the shortstop position for the past 10 years, has retired. Heo Kyung-min, the main third baseman, transferred to KT through an FA contract. Reliever Kim Kang-ryul also left for LG. Doosan had two pillars supporting the left infield at the same time.
In this regard, Ha is a resource Doosan can fully take interest in. A total of 20 players have applied for free agency in the Stove League this year. As of Sunday, 15 players have signed up for free agency. B-grade shortstop Ha Joo-seok, pitcher Lee Yong-chan, C-grade infielder Seo Geon-chang, outfielder Kim Sung-wook, and pitcher Moon Sung-hyun are still under contract. Ha is still 30 years old, the youngest among the players. He was a promising player who was designated as the first round player by Hanwha in the 2012 Rookie Draft. He did not have full potential, but he proved his skills in the first team.
In fact, Doosan's infield is completely in limbo. Shortstop and third-base hit holes, affecting the second base. Kang Seung-ho, who was in charge of second base this year, is moving to third base, and is now in a completely new round. A Doosan official said, "We don't know right now. Seven to eight players are competing at the spring camp." Doosan already put Kang on third base in the closing camp and started beta testing.
According to Statistics Korea, Ha has played 794 games as shortstop, 20 games as third baseman, and three games as a second baseman. He is a player who can easily scratch Doosan's itchy spot. "The situation in the FA market and our team is different," a Doosan official said. In other words, there is no plan to donate blood from outside just because the main shortstop has not been decided yet.
The biggest stumbling block is apparently compensation players. A club that takes a Grade B player must pay 100 percent of annual salary and 25 protected players as compensation to its original team. For a Grade C player, it is sufficient to pay 150 percent of annual salary without compensation players.
Doosan also has plenty of promising players in the infield, just like its famed pullback. Kang Seung-ho, Park Joon-young, Lee Yoo-chan, Oh Myung-jin, Park Ji-hoon, Yeo Dong-gun, and Park Jun-soon are expected to have opportunities. Lee Yoo-chan played 679 ⅔ innings as second baseman, 400 ⅓ innings as shortstop, and 363 ⅓ innings as third baseman. In this year's shortstop position, Park Joon-young played 434 ⅔ innings, the most. Rookie Yeo Dong-gun also played in five games as second baseman, recording a batting average of 40%, which is expected to raise high expectations. Park Joon-soon, who was picked as sixth in the first round of this year's rookie draft, also has great potential as a former infielder with the national youth team. 토토사이트
Except for Doosan, most of them are definitely shortstop positions. Ha Joo-seok's position has become narrower as his former Hanwha recruited Shim Woo-joon as an FA. KT, which sent Shim Woo-joon, also has no worries. Second baseman Kim Sang-soo's original position is shortstop. In addition, KIA Park Chan-ho, Samsung Lee Jae-hyun, LG Oh Ji-hwan, SSG Park Sung-han, Lotte Park Seung-wook, and NC Kim Joo-won are holding on. Kiwoom is a team that prefers utility players and recently recruited veteran infielder Oh Sun-jin, so the connection with Ha Joo-seok is weak.