"This year is really different."

The spring camp for professional baseball is almost over. The exhibition games will begin on Feb. 8. Teams will tour their home countries around the next five days. The same will apply to Samsung as well. They will wrap up their camp schedule with training sessions in the morning on Jan. 4. They left for Guam for the first camp site on Jan. 22 and will return to Korea on Jan. 5 after the second stop in Okinawa, Japan. "It's a perfect day for sports, but I feel a bit sad to go in. Overall, what we planned was a good performance, especially in terms of depth enhancement," Samsung coach Park Jin-man said.
The mood is better than ever before. The results are quite different from the previous season when the team only had three wins, three losses, one draw and eight losses in practice games. As it is a time to test various cards, the outcome is not that important. Still, it is clearly meaningful to accumulate memories of victory one by one. Coach Park also gave a thumbs-up, saying, "(Since taking the helm in October 2022) this year seemed to have been the most concentrated players in the team." Usually, after a camp, a pitcher and a fielder are selected as the most valuable player (MVP). As many players did well this time, the team increased the number to two each.

There are several reasons. Samsung has become a team that defied expectations from last season and continued to play until the end. Although it failed to ascend to the throne after losing to Kia in the Korean Series, it gained confidence that it could do it. "It is completely different from last year. His eyes look extraordinary," Samsung's general manager Lee Jong-yeol said, nodding. "Each player seems to have felt a great sense of accomplishment as he won the runner-up prize last year. There are things that you can feel when you achieve a certain level of performance. His attitude in training has improved a lot." 카지노사이트

Another is the vigor that Samsung has brought. As many as four rookies have completed the race. They are Bae Chan-seung, Shim Jae-hoon, Cha Seung-joon, and Soo-ho. Considering that none of them have played in the past few years, it is quite unusual. In particular, Bae has been raising expectations by banking on his pitches that are not like rookies. At the match against KIA on Saturday, the last practice game, he had three strikeouts in a row. Originally, half of the team was supposed to be sent to the Kagoshima camp in the second division after the first camp, but he successfully changed the coaching staff's mind.

Of course, any team is not 100 percent satisfied. If there is anything that is regrettable, it is definitely a negative factor for the injury. While Kim Moo-shin (former Kim Yoon-soo) was exited from his team's roster due to flexor muscle damage in his right elbow, Danny Reyes and Kim Young-woong also returned to Korea early. Lee Chang-yong was hit in the face by a pitch at a practice game against KIA. He had a tear near his lip and incontinence in his teeth. He will return to Korea one day earlier than expected. Wontae-in, who suffered an injury in the postseason last year, is still in the process of getting fit. "It is regrettable that we have some injured players in the camp, but we will work out a plan in time for them to come back," Park said.