“Hyeseong is already far away, and I have been pushed behind in internal competition.”
Park Hae-min (33, LG Twins), who topped base stealing four times, succeeded in stealing only one base this season (as of the 19th).
Kim Hye-seong (Kiwoom Heroes) has already succeeded in stealing 7 bases.
Here, the competition for stealing bases within LG is very fierce.
Not only Hong Chang-ki (5), but also Moon Sung-joo and Oh Ji-hwan (4 more), Moon Bo-kyung, Shin Min-jae (3 more), Kim Min-seong, Seo Geon-chang, and Austin Dean (2 more) stole more bases than Park Hae-min. .
Park Hae-min, who I recently met at Jamsil Stadium, joked, “Everyone is playing well, but I’m nervous because I’m the only one who can’t play.”
However, LG’s ‘extreme running baseball’ this season is a good stimulus to Park Hae-min.
Park Hae-min said, “There have been teams in the past where 3 or 4 players actively played, but isn’t it the first time in Korean professional baseball that all players play like this?” it gets bigger,” he said.
Now even LG fans know that Haemin Park is a slow starter.
Park Hae-min hasn’t started the engine yet.
He said, “I also want to increase my on-base percentage and join our team’s fast baseball game.”
Park Hae-min said, “I feel that the opposing team is having a really hard time with LG. It’s exhausting. Perhaps the most annoying team to beasts from other teams is LG.”
LG tried to steal 46 times until the 19th, and succeeded 29 times. This is a figure that overwhelms Doosan Bears (23 times), who are second in stealing attempts, and NC Dinos (15 times), who are second in stealing attempts.
But even the ‘running team’ gets tired in the end.
Park Hae-min, who succeeded in stealing 343 bases in his personal career, including becoming the king of stolen bases four times, said, “It is natural for a team that plays baseball to suffer from physical problems,” but added, “Our team is preparing in various ways to solve the physical problems. One of the ways is for a player like me who didn’t play often at the beginning of the season to play more often as the season progresses.”
Park Hae-min said, “I often talk to my juniors about ‘game stamina.’ ’ Now that our team’s color has become established as a running baseball, I hope juniors will also learn ‘how not to get tired’.”
Park Hae-min is also increasing his speed as the game progresses.
In the match against Jamsil NC on the 18th, Moon Seong-joo aggressively dug into the home on a short-distance sacrificial fly in the 3rd inning and scored a goal. .
Park Hae-min said, “It’s getting better little by little. Once I get on base, I have a chance to run. I’m a player whose strengths are revealed more after stepping on base. I’m still on-base (0.288), but I’ll raise it even more.”
After 2018, the will to recapture the stolen king after 5 years is also strong.
Park Hae-min said,메이저사이트 “If the team plays baseball, I can play more actively. Watching my colleagues diligently try to steal bases and succeed, I thought, ‘If I only raise the on-base rate, I can challenge the king of base steals again.'” “If we compete with our LG colleagues, the opponent will be more afraid of us, and we can get closer to our goal of winning,” he said.
Park Hae-min’s eyes sparkled even more when he raised the topic of ‘winning’.