The league's representative '10 wins submarine' will face off... Will last season, which was marred by injuries and sluggishness, succeed in restoring honor through a luxury pitching match
The league's representative '10 wins submarine' will face off... Will last season, which was marred by injuries and sluggishness, succeed in restoring honor through a luxury pitching match
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Ko Young-pyo (34) and Choi Won-joon (31), who were once the side-arm pitchers representing the league, will face off as starters, who have to recover their honor after a disappointing performance last year.메이저사이트
Choi Won-joon and Ko Young-pyo will start the 2025 Shinhan SOL Bank KBO League regular season showdown between Doosan and KT at KT Wiz Park in Suwon on the 25th.
The two right-handed sidearm pitchers representing the league have another thing in common. It is that they had a disappointing season last year.
Choi Won-joon, who graduated from Dongguk University and received Doosan's first pick in the 2017 rookie draft, began to appear on the first-team stage in earnest from the 2019 season. Having played with 1 win, 2 losses, 1 save, 4 holds and an ERA of 2.65 in 34 appearances that year, he recorded his first double-digit wins in the 2020 season, recording 10 wins, 2 losses and an ERA of 3.80.
Choi Won-joon played a full-time starting rotation in the 2021 season, recording 12 wins, 4 losses and an ERA of 3.30 in 29 games, and recording more than 10 wins for the second consecutive year. The following year, he only won eight games because his luck did not follow, but he did not do a bad job, starting in 30 games and playing 165 innings, a personal record.
However, the team began to suffer a sharp decline in the 2023 season and peaked at a slump last year. Although foreign pitchers continued to rotate in rotation due to injury loss, the team exposed anxiety to the extent that its ERA soared to 6.46 as it played 110 innings in 24 games.
It was Ko's injury that hampered him last year. Ko, who reigned as the league's best native starter by achieving double-digit wins for three consecutive seasons from 2021 to 2023, was out of the lineup due to an elbow injury after playing in only two games since the opening of the 2024 season.
He returned home after a break of about a month and a half, but this was not the image of Ko as we know him. He seemed to be finding himself, with one win and one loss and an earned run average of 2.95 in three games in June, but his earned run average soared in May (5.56) and June (6.58). During the period, he recorded a whopping 0.381 hit rate, failing to overwhelm his opponent's batters.
In September, he showed some stability and lowered his season ERA to 4.95, but this was also not Ko Young-pyo's. His final record was 6 wins and 8 losses in 18 games, failing to achieve double-digit wins for the first time since the 2018 season.
Choi Won-joon, who had been classified as an existing bullpen resource through spring camp and exhibition games, was given a chance to start due to the sudden damage to the inner oblique muscle of the native ace Kwak Bin. Currently, Doosan's fifth starter is Kim Yoo-sung, but if he shows competitiveness as an alternative starter, he may secure a position in the rotation during the season.
Ko, who signed a five-year non-FA multi-year contract worth a total of 10.7 billion won (9.7 million U.S. dollars) with KT ahead of the 2024 season, also needs to show how he is a resurgent ace. Although Cho Hyung-joon and Oh Won-seok are said to have joined the rotation, Um Sang-baek, who was in charge of 156 ⅔ innings in 29 games on the mound last year, was out of his team's roster. Ko started two exhibition games and pitched well by allowing three runs in a total of eight innings.