No 1 overall pick came out...155km bam! The 'Race for the King of New Men' has begun until the third record was born
No 1 overall pick came out...155km bam! The 'Race for the King of New Men' has begun until the third record was born
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He put in a fastball that exceeded 150km from the start. The 2025 Rookie of the Year race has begun in earnest.메이저놀이터
The 2025 KBO League, which opened on the 22nd, held a fastball feast for "Rookie Pitcher" from the beginning.
The match between the Hanwha Eagles and the KT Wiz took place at KT Wiz Park in Suwon. Hanwha rookie Jung Woo-joo came up in the bottom of the eighth inning when the team was losing 3-4 on Sunday to face the KT centerline.
Kim Min-hyuk, Jang Sung-woo, and Moon Sang-cheol were aggressively playing fastball matches, becoming "powerful." Kim had a long game up to nine pitches in the match against Kim Min-hyuk, who showed good batting performance by recording multi-hits on the first day of the match, but managed to secure a fly to the center field with a 155-kilometer fastball. Jang also failed to make a positive hit on a 154-kilometer fastball, resulting in a grounder to the shortstop, and Moon was struck out by a slider and a fastball that swung and missed three pitches. He made his debut successfully with three outs.
On the same day, the Samsung Lions and the Kiwoom Heroes played at Samsung Lions Park in Daegu. Samsung rookie Bae Chan-seung (aged 19) took the mound in the top of the sixth inning with a 6-3 lead, and threw out Park Joo-hong, Yasiel Puig and Lee Ju-hyung. He pitched just eight times.
Bae's maximum speed is 155 kilometers. He hit the ball against Puig, a foreign hitter. His breaking ball was also stable. In his showdown with Lee, Bae garnered a strikeout by swinging on a slider. Bae recorded hold in his first game.
Among the batters, Yeo Dong-wook (20), who was designated as the third round (27th overall), showed his presence. Yeo Dong-wook, who started as the seventh batter and third baseman against Samsung in Daegu on Tuesday, hit Samsung starter Ariel Furado's fastball in his first at-bat to hit the ball directly over the fence.
It is the third time a rookie has hit a home run in his first at-bat since his debut in the opening game, following Lotte Cho Kyung-hwan in 1998 and KT Kang Baek-ho in 2018.
Although Chung made a splendid appearance from the opening series, he has yet to become a "top prospect." Chung joined the team as the first overall pick, and displayed extraordinary performance from exhibition games.
He started three exhibition games, and posted two wins, no loss and an earned run average of 0.82. In the first two games, he pitched three or four innings without losing a point, and displayed stable pitching by allowing two runs (one earned run) in four innings at the match against Lotte Corporation (on Saturday), which was the final check. It was natural that he would be selected as a starting pitcher.
Chung Hyun-woo, who is scheduled to start as the fourth starter, is likely to take the mound against KIA on the 26th.