Veteran players such as Song Eun-beom, Seo Geon-chang and Lee Chun-woong will leave LG. LG decided on the 25th to exclude a total of 12 players, including five pitchers including Song Eun-beom, Lee Chan-hyuk, Kim Tae-hyung (left), Sung Jae-hun and Lim Jung-woo, four infielders including Seo Geon-chang, Jeong Ju-hyeon, Kim Sung-hyeop and Choi Hyun-joon, and three outfielders including Lee Chun-woong, Choi Min-chang and Lee Cheol-min.
Among them, Chung Ju-hyun expressed his intention to retire. 안전놀이터
It is shocking to exclude Seo Geon-chang, who had been traded to LG as a “winning contractor” in 2021. Seo Kun-chang, who had 201 hits in 2014 when he was a Nexen Heroes player and topped 200 hits for the first time in the KBO League, was an elaborate batter, but after coming to LG in a one-on-one trade with Jung Chan-heon in 2021, he fell into a poor batting performance.
Seo Kun-chang, who received the lowest performance since his debut with a batting average of 253, became an FA after the season, but Seo Kun-chang, who chose to retake the FA, unfortunately suffered a worse blow last year. His batting average has fallen further to .224. Due to sluggishness and injury, he also spent more time in the second division. I chose the FA Samsu because I didn’t submit another FA application.
This year was a good opportunity for him. Head coach Yeom Kyung-yeop, who was with Nexen, tried to find a breakthrough together when he came to LG. Coach Yeom gave Seo a chance to revive by giving him the second baseman position at the beginning of the season. Seo Geon-chang raised expectations by ranking first with a batting average of 0.362 in the exhibition game.
However, Seo Geon-chang was different from the exhibition game in the regular league. He had a batting average of 0.22 percent (18 hits in 81 at-bats) during the month of April. He even made a ridiculous mistake, increasing anxiety in defense. He went down to the second team on 19 May, and returned to the first team only when he entered the expansion in September. And in the meantime, Shin Min-jae, who was a pinch-runner agent, took the main position of second baseman with his excellent skills. There was no place for Seo Geon-chang in the Korean Series entry. There was no Seo Geon-chang at the moment of joy when LG won the Korean Series for the first time in 29 years.
44 games, batting .2 (22 for 110), 12 RBIs. Seo Geon-chang, who had 201 hits in a season, only had 22 hits. Also, the FA season has come, but Seo Geon-chang did not apply for FA again this time. He aims to make a comeback again next season, but the stage is no longer LG.
Song Eun-beom was also a veteran who was in charge of LG’s middle, but he failed to win the title this time. Song Eun-beom, who underwent surgery to rupture his cruciate ligament in his knee during the 2021 season, returned last year and recorded one win and two holds and a 4.05 ERA in 25 games. This year, he pitched in only four games in the first division and recorded an ERA of 2.45 without a win or loss. As Yoo Young-chan, Baek Seung-hyun, Park Myung-geun, and Ham Deok-ju came up, the seat disappeared.
Lee Chun-woong showed good batting performance with a batting average of 340 in 2018 and a batting average of 308 in 2019, but has not been able to find his place since he slowed down due to injury in 2020.
Chung Ju-hyun played in 89 games as a backup infielder this season, hitting 273 with 24 hits, one home run and 12 RBIs, and also played in the Korean Series, but decided to retire.