Witnesses at the Lotte camp, players who became 'green onion kimchi' and training to take off their top...Kim Taehyung-ho, you've made up your mind
Witnesses at the Lotte camp, players who became 'green onion kimchi' and training to take off their top...Kim Taehyung-ho, you've made up your mind
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Lotte's spring camp landscape has changed.
Lotte has been holding a spring camp in Tainan, Taiwan since the 24th of last month. Witnesses are heard in the area. In other words, the intensity of the training is higher than ever.
The schedule is tight. The day begins at 7 a.m. Players who are assigned to the early work group will head to the ballpark from their lodging at 8 a.m. after breakfast.
The full-fledged training begins at 9 a.m. There is not much time difference with the early work group. Intensive training is conducted throughout the morning, and after taking a breather during lunchtime, the training begins in the afternoon. They have dinner at 5:30 a.m.
One-day training is not over yet. Night training starts at 7 p.m. It is not an autonomous training. The list of players who have to participate in the training is set every day. It was even announced as "all fielders" at night training on the 3rd.
It is not just a tight training schedule. "Crying sounds" can be heard all over the camp site. Players are all sweating and lying down on the ground from time to time, showing themselves as "green onion kimchi." On March 31, players had to take off their tops for training. Defense coach Kim Min-ho suggested that players take off their sweat when the weather is nice, and infielders practiced defense without wearing their jerseys. As Kim said, players completely sweated on the day.
A club official said, "The players are tired, but they are very motivated."
In recent years, Lotte seemed to prefer "autonomous" rather than intensive training in its spring camp. However, the mood completely changed after the end of the last season. Lotte ranked seventh in the regular season last season and failed to advance to the post season for the seventh consecutive year since its semi-playoff in 2017.
From the closing camp, Lotte coach Kim Tae-hyung instructed coaches to "make him do it until he likes it enough."
At first, he held a finishing camp at Sajik Stadium in Busan, the first-tier stadium, and Gimhae Sangdong Stadium, the second-tier stadium, and set up a defensive reinforcement camp in Miyazaki, Japan, after the field said it was "not enough."
Lotte, which had the second largest number of team errors among the 10 teams last season with 113, focused on strengthening basic skills to make up for the loss. The training schedule was held from 9 a.m. to 8 p.m. The closing camp was mostly rookie or backup players rather than main players, and this atmosphere continued in the spring camp of the first team.
This year, he will renew his commitment to fulfill the aspiration of fall baseball. His stances in the Stove League were the same. He retained both Kim Won-joong and Koo Seung-min, who earned free agent status. He brought in Jeong Cheol-won and reinforced the bullpen by trade. The fence at Sajik Stadium, which had been elevated, has also been restored.
Kim Tae-hyung, who served as Lotte's manager for the fall baseball season, has left disappointment last season. He is committed to advancing to the post season without fail this season. Before leaving the spring camp, he said, "I have to go to the fall baseball season. I will show a lot better performance than last year," before expressing his goal.
Players have a greater desire to go to autumn baseball. Motivation has been added to this.
Before leaving the spring camp, Lotte completed the team's salary contract for the 2025 season. In particular, the price of young players has risen significantly.
Yoon Dong-hee, Ko Seung-min, Hwang Sung-bin, and Na Seung-yeop, so-called "Yoon Na-go-hwang," all made it to the top of the list. Yoon even went up 122.2 percent from 90 million won to 200 million won for the 2024 season. Son Ho-young, who became the center of the team after moving to Lotte last season, also increased his salary from 45 million won to 125 million won.
Not a few other players were also reportedly stimulated by the increasing value of young players who played as the mainstay of the team. They came to witness in person the fact that if they become good at baseball, they can increase their ransom. With this atmosphere in place, they are actively participating in tough training sessions. Despite sweating and a lot of training, they are showing no complaints. 온라인바카라
There is a saying that 'sweat does not betray'. Lotte is sweating more than ever.