2018 Tryout and Rookie Draft... One Ha Jae-hoon is left in the overseas league
2018 Tryout and Rookie Draft... One Ha Jae-hoon is left in the overseas league
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Suwon KT Wiz Park on August 20, 2018. Although the KBO League regular season was not held, the coverage was hot. This is because a tryout was held for players returning from overseas.
Pitcher Lee Dae-eun, who played for a minor league team under the Chicago Cubs of the Major League Baseball (MLB), and also played for the national international team (premier 12) after playing for the Chiba Lotte Marines of the Japanese league, and infielder Lee Hak-joo, who also played for a minor league team under the Cubs, drew attention. Left-hander Yoon Jeong-hyun, outfielder Ha Jae-hoon and catcher Kim Sung-min also seemed likely to be the top-ranked players in the second rookie draft of the year.
In fact, Lee Dae-eun joined KT Wiz as the first overall pick. Lee Hak-joo was nominated by the Samsung Lions as the second overall pick. The Hanwha Eagles named Noh Si-hwan, the biggest high school fielder, as the third overall pick, and the Nexen Heroes (currently Kiwoom) chose Yoon Jeong-hyun. Ha Jae-hoon was chosen by the SK Wyverns (currently SSG Landers) in the second round (16th overall pick).
Six years have passed. Ha Jae-hoon is the only player who remains in the stove league among the players who played overseas in the third round. All three players who played in the first round have either retired or become invincible.
Lee Dae-eun suddenly retired after finishing the 2021 season. In the second half of the first season of the KBO League, he pitched 86 innings as KT's closing pitcher, but in the following two seasons, he failed to fill out more than 35 innings due to poor performance and injury. Currently, he is playing the role of a baseball evangelist in the most popular baseball program.
Yoon Jeong-hyeon was excluded from the renewal of contract with Kiwoom early last month. He has recorded all the first-team records from his first season to the 2024 season, but failed to display competitive edge as the number of innings in a season is only 27 and one third (2020). In the end, his company with Kiwoom is now over.
Lee Hak-joo, who also played as a main shortstop, faced a strong wind in the offseason. On the 5th, Lotte Giants announced the appointment of a new coaching staff and delivered four players who were released, which were included in the list.
Lee Hak-joo played for Samsung until the 2021 season, and played for three more seasons in the Lotte Marines in a trade. He played in more than 100 games during the 2019 and 2023 seasons. Only one season (2019) has had triple-digit hits. Though his talent was highly regarded, he often revealed basic skills problems.
It is a world of professionals who cannot be undervalued simply by staying in the first division for five to six seasons each. Even if they are not active overseas, there are many top-ranked players who have not shone in the first division. 메이저놀이터
However, compared with the performances of "first generation U-turn" such as Kim Sun-woo, Seo Jae-eung, Choi Hee-seop, Song Seung-joon and Bong Jung-geun, it is true that those of overseas players who were nominated in the first round of the 2017 season were not enough. The number of overseas players who were nominated in the rookie draft has also decreased significantly in recent years.