Kiwoom Heroes’ ‘late free agent’ Jeong Chan-heon is hardly winning.
On March 27, a few days before the start of the season on the 1st of last month, Kiwoom announced a free agency contract with pitcher Jeong Chan-heon. Jeong Chan-heon, who applied for free agency after the end of last season and was unable to find a new team, signed a contract with his original team Kiwoom for 2 years, a down payment of 200 million won, an annual salary of 200 million won, and an option of up to 260 million won, totaling 860 million won. entered into a contract with
Jeong Chan-heon, who had been building his body in college and an independent baseball team, joined the Futures and raised his sense of actual fighting again, and was called up for the first time on the 29th of last month to fill the vacant 5th starting position after Jang Jae-young, the 5th starter, went down to the 2nd team due to sluggish performance.
Jeong Chan-heon pitched 6 innings and 1 run each against SSG on the 5th and against LG on the 11th of this month. Then, against Doosan on the 17th, he lost a lot of runs in the first inning and came down the mound with 6 runs in 4 innings.토토사이트
His performance this season was 3 matches, 3 losses, and an average ERA of 4.50. Looking at the average ERA alone, it was at the level of maintaining the quality start in every game, but as the team continued to go out of sync with the batting line, losses piled up. It has been almost a year since the last victory of the first team was against Hanwha on July 2 last year.
Jeong Chan-heon will start on the 23rd against Suwon kt. The opponent is kt at the bottom, but it recorded 3 wins and 3 losses in 6 games last week, showing better results than Kiwoom (2 wins and 4 losses). In particular, it surpassed Kiwoom (0.238) in weekly team batting average (0.278). Kang Baek-ho (0.346), Kim Sang-soo (0.444), Park Byeong-ho (0.455), and Jang Seong-woo (0.368) were hot.
Even if the opponent is at the bottom, Kiwoom is also in 8th place with 18 wins and 24 losses, so it is not a relaxed situation. It is only 2.5 games from 9th place Hanwha and 3.5 games from 10th place kt. The start of team reorganization is the stabilization of the starting rotation. Only when the 5th starter Jung Chan-heon and the team laugh together can Kiwoom challenge the winning series in 10 days.