When a professional baseball player plays a season, the pace goes up and down. No matter how good a player is, there are times when a slump comes, and if a player has a level, he or she can survive.
Hanwha Eagles Captain Chae Eun-sung had a rough start to this season. He joined the team on a massive free agent contract worth a total of W9 billion last year, and even served as captain this year. Due to poor individual performance, however, the team suffered a setback after seven consecutive wins right after the opening, and even the manager was replaced.토토사이트
However, as if Chae Eun-seong is relieved of his regret in the first half of the year, he is spinning his bat like crazy. He had four hits in a multi-homer game against the Samsung Lions on Saturday. He also had four RBIs in his first four-hit game since moving to the Hanwha Eagles.
The six games played in August were “MVP-class mode.” There were two multi-homer games, five-run games and two four-run games. This three-game series includes doubles every game. Based on the last 10 games, he has a batting average of 386, seven home runs and 21 RBIs. With 188.8 homers in April, 242 homers in May, and 262 homers in June suddenly changing like this, I’m curious why.
Of course, it is the result of Chae Eun-sung’s hard work, but there is an interesting point. After Yang Sang-moon, the pitching coach, joined Hanwha, Chae Eun-sung began to revive.
Head coach Kim Kyung-moon has added Yang Seung-kwan and pitching coach Yang Sang-moon since the beginning of the second half of the season. It was on April 9 that Yang first wore Hanwha’s uniform. Chae Eun-seong, who had no hits, no homers, no RBIs or even walks in the last three games of the first half of the season, started hitting hits in the game against the Kiwoom Heroes on July 10 and hit hits in seven consecutive games, signaling his revival. He took a day off from the game against the KIA Tigers on July 19, and hit hits in all the other games in July, gradually increasing his hitting sense, and started to pour in homers and RBIs in late July.
Of course, Yang has no right to tell Chae what to do or what to do because he is a pitching coach. They are a close relationship. When Yang was the head coach of the LG Twins, he appointed Chae, who was unknown to him. He recognized Chae as a leader of a generational change based on her clutch ability and diligent appearance. No wonder, her nickname was “Yang Eun-seong” at the time. She meant that she was the adopted son of Yang. When Chae had her first hit in 2014, Yang personally wrote a message saying, “Be a great player” on the commemorative ball, drawing much attention.
With the full support of coach Yang, he grew into a center hitter for LG, and eventually became a star player who won a 9 billion won FA contract. Was Chae Eun-sung reliable just by the presence of coach Eun-sa Yang? Whatever the reason, if Chae Eun-sung survives like this, Hanwha, head coach Kim, and coach Yang are all very happy.