"Your skills are not everything."The light and shade of the FA market.

[Anchor]
The professional baseball FA market is almost closing.

Some players have realized their dream of becoming a big hit, but some don't.

The skills are good, but the players' contrast was mixed with the timing of the contract and the coach's tactics.

This is reporter Lee Kyung-jae.

[Reporter]
On November 7, the second day of the FA market, Hanwha recruited Shim Woo-joon of KT for four years and 5 billion won, including options.More than two months later, he signed a one-year contract with Ha Joo-seok, an FA in the

team.

The two players are shortstop, and there is no significant difference between their visible career performance and last year's performance in the same position.

Rather, Ha Joo-seok is one-up in slugging and Shim Woo-joon is certainly ahead in stealing.

The reason why the ransom was more than 10 times different was timing, director's tactics, and work ethic.

Shim Woo-joon returned from the military last year and led the team's rise, but Ha Joo-seok failed to continue his early performance and gave up his main position by revealing problems in defense.

Knee injury in 2019 and drinking history in 2022 have also been hampered.

Manager Kim Kyung-moon's philosophy, which values basic skills and defense, and his weaknesses in ninth place in team stolen bases and last place in success rate were also the background that distinguished the two players from each other.

[Shim Woojun / Hanwha infielder: I felt the sincerity of why I came here]

Ryu Ji-hyuk of Samsung, who was also little different from Ha Joo-seok in his career performance, hit a four-year, 2.6 billion won jackpot thanks to his performance in fall baseball and his consistency,
Jang Hyun-sik, who pitched well in the regular season of
but left a strong impression with five innings and one hit in five Korean Series games, was guaranteed 5.2 billion won for four years at LG.

This is YTN Lee Kyungjae.


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