"Eom Sang-baek goes to 7.8 billion Hanwha and Heo Kyung-min goes to 4 billion kt"...FA vs. Migration

[Anchor]
The professional baseball FA market is slowly heating up.

Hanwha recruited an FA from kt for two consecutive days, including Shim Woo-joon and pitcher Um Sang-baek, and

kt brought Doosan infielder Huh Kyung-min for 4 billion won to fill the vacancy.

This is reporter Lee Kyung-jae.

[Reporter]
Hanwha, which brought KT infielder Shim Woo-joon, opened its wallet wide again.

Eom Sang-baek, also KT's starting resource, paid 7.8 billion won, including options, to sign a four-year FA contract.

The last autumn baseball made a bold investment to make another leap forward ahead of its first season in 2018 and next year at new stadiums.

Um went 13-10 with a 4.88 ERA this season.

He played as a starter for three years at the pitcher kingdom kt, but his ransom jumped because he lacked domestic starters throughout the league.

[Um Sang-baek / Hanwha Pitcher: It will be held at the new stadium from next season, and I will try harder to make the Hanwha Eagles go higher.][Kt, which lost both FA in the

team to Hanwha, brought in Huh Kyung-min, Doosan's franchise player.

Up to 4 billion in four years.

It is a better condition than the existing contract of 2 billion won in three years, which Heo Kyung-min will receive when he remains in Doosan without declaring an FA.

Heo Kyung-min, who has played in the first team since 2012, has a career batting average of 0.293 with the best defense in the league,

This year, he returned as a .309 hitter for the first time in four years.

[Huh Kyung-min / KT infielder: I didn't know that I played in one team at first, but I thought it was okay for me to go to this team.]

KT plans to turn Hwang Jae-gyun, the main third baseman, to first base and leave Heo Kyung-min to third base.

This is YTN Lee Kyungjae.

Video editing: Oh HWONSEULGI