KIA Tigers infielder Yoon Do-hyun (21) was famous as a rival of Kim Do-young (21) during his middle and high school years. Although he is slightly behind in speed, he is considered to be as good as Kim Do-young in batting talent. After graduating from Mudeung Middle School and Gwangju Jeil High School, he joined the team as 15th in the second round in 2022.스포츠토토
As soon as he joined the team, he participated in a practice game for the spring camp of the first team pitcher, and pushed the ball of the first team pitcher to make a clean hit to the right, surprising his predecessor. He was also actively used in exhibition games. However, he began to be twisted at that time. While dealing with a fly ball in an away game in Daegu, he collided with Kim Do-young and suffered a fracture in the mid-wrist bone.
Since then, Yoon has been completely eliminated from competition and became a forgotten prospect. He continued to suffer minor injuries in the Futures League as well. He played in only one game in the first team in 2023. However, he played in only 11 games in the Futures League that year. Some even said that he might have to hold a rite of exorcism.
This year, he entertained KIA people by hitting hard at the Okinawa spring camp. In fact, he couldn’t go to the Canberra 1st-tier spring camp in Australia, but he joined the team in earnest from Okinawa and impressed coach Lee Bum-ho. Lee Bum-ho has experience as a general coach for the second-tier team, so he knows promising players for the KIA 2nd-tier field. He has evaluated Yoon Do-hyun’s batting ability higher than anyone else.
However, he ended up hurting his side at the end of the practice game. As such, his participation in exhibition games went up in smoke. After barely recovering from the injury, he started playing in the Futures League, but he hurt his midwrist bone again while going to third base due to a double hit. Thus, he underwent rehabilitation again. He played in only 22 games this season in the Futures League. He had 19 hits in 74 at-bats for a batting average of 0.257, three RBIs and seven runs scored.
Yoon has been registered in the first division ahead of the match against the Gwangju NC Dinos on Sunday. He is the first player to join the team this season. KIA has confirmed its direct advance to the Korean Series and has started preparing for fall baseball by removing Na Sung-bum from the entry list on the day. Manager Lee Bum-ho seems to have wanted to confirm Yoon. The remaining six games are very precious to Yoon.
It is excessive greed that we have to be wary of at this point. It is said that trying to show more things always led to injuries. Due to frequent injuries, the vicious cycle was repeated after taking the game too important.
“I said I would post it because I was ready, but it was bad again and again, so the time has been delayed,” Lee said. “Since it’s too late, we have to prepare without any injuries from now on, and go to wrap up camp after the season. We will also have spring camp next year.”
He said, “When I enter next season, I hope I can make an injury-free body and improve my performance to some extent. I think I have that much talent, but I hope I can manage those areas a little more and grow into a good player. I hope there will be a chance to do well.”