"I love Coach Son Seungrak. When I was young..." KIA Cho Sang-woo and head coach are a must-win duo of Nexen's '9 o'clock baseball' from 2014 to 2015
"I love Coach Son Seungrak. When I was young..." KIA Cho Sang-woo and head coach are a must-win duo of Nexen's '9 o'clock baseball' from 2014 to 2015
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Cho Sang-woo, 30, a right-handed bullpen pitcher who moved to the Kia Tigers in a trade on Wednesday, said, "I don't think many Kia members know each other. "Lee is my colleague," he said. Born in 1994, they are the same class as Daejeon High School. After graduating from high school, they will meet each other for the first time.스포츠토토
In addition, Cho Sang-woo said, "(The late) Jong-wook is also here." He went crazy, but if Seo Geon-chang signs an FA contract, they will meet again in four years after the Kiwoom Heroes in 2021. However, Cho Sang-woo picked this person as his most important relationship.
Son Seung-rak is the senior coach. After joining the Hyundai Unicorns in the second round as the 25th pick in the third round in 2001, Son graduated from Yeungnam University and started playing professional baseball from 2005. He became a firefighter with 26 saves in 2010. He earned 17 saves, 33 saves, 46 saves, 32 saves and 23 saves until 2015. He left the 2015-2016 FA market for the Lotte Giants.
Cho Sang-woo joined the Nexen Heroes as No. 1 player in the first round in 2013. Since 2014, his second year in the team, Cho has become a mid-range hitter in earnest. He displayed impressive performance with 6 wins, 2 losses and 11 holds with an ERA of 2.47 in 48 games in 2014, and 8 wins, 5 losses, 5 saves and 19 holds with an ERA of 3.09 in 70 games in 2015.
After ranking second in the regular season in 2014, Nexen ranked second in the Korean Series for the first time and became the runner-up. In 2015, Nexen also ranked fourth in the regular season and played in the postseason. From this period, the team continued to play fall baseball until the early 2020s except in 2017.
Nexen will become a dark horse that cannot be ignored in the mid-2010s, and head coach Son Seung-rak and Cho Sang-woo have greatly contributed. Coach Son Seung-rak "self-destructs" after seeing Choi Hyung-woo as the head coach of the first team last summer and referring to the two-base hit in the bottom of the ninth inning of Game 5 of the 2014 Korean Series (the overall flow of the Korean Series was transferred to Samsung due to Choi Hyung-woo's finishing hit, who was a member of the Samsung Lions at the time), but in fact, coach Son Seung-rak had a good season with 3 wins, 5 losses, 32 saves and an ERA of 4.33 in 62 games.
Nexen's must-win formula was that if Cho Sang-woo was in charge of the middle of the game, head coach Son Seung-rak finished with a save. Cho Sang-woo recalled that he learned a lot while taking charge of the Nexen bullpen with head coach Son Seung-rak. "When I was young, I learned a lot about baseball, especially about taking care of my body," he said.
Now they are in sync with the head coach as a key bullpen session. "It's so nice to see Coach Son Seung-rak again," Cho said. Son Seung-rak, the head coach, is not in a position to coach pitchers in person, but if KIA is to play V13 next year, they should also share their thoughts.
Coach Lee Bum-ho said, "The senior coach has a lot of experience in the middle and finishing. I spent a lot of seasons with Jo Sang-woo. You will understand what kind of personality Sang-woo is and what kind of style he is. We will talk about Jo Sang-woo and decide on his position." In other words, he will refer to the opinions of senior coach Son Seung-rak in the process of determining the use of Jo Sang-woo.
They will meet again as middle and high school seniors. They will also change teams. It is a special relationship.