I don't think about renewing the contract, so I hope Doosan will regain its reputation." People's batters declared a surprise...The last year of the contract. Why did you give up your personal greed

I don't think about renewing the contract, so I hope Doosan will regain its reputation." People's batters declared a surprise...The last year of the contract. Why did you give up your personal greed

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Doosan Bears manager Lee Seung-yeop, who is in the last year of his head coach's contract this year, expressed his determination to abandon his desire to renew his contract and run only for the Doosan Bears.바카라사이트

Lee Seung-yeop, who was called a national hitter when he was active, was appointed as the 11th head coach of the Doosan Bears at the cafeteria of Jamsil Stadium in Seoul on October 18, 2022. After signing a three-year contract with a total of 1.8 billion won (down payment of 300 million won and annual salary of 500 million won), he opened his first career as a leader by wearing a Doosan uniform with his uniform with his uniform number "77."

Doosan, which humiliatingly ranked ninth for the first time in the 2022 season, received an invitation to the postseason for the first time in two years as it ranked fifth (74 wins, 2 draws and 68 losses) in the 2023 season with coach Lee Seung-yeop. By spending a full year of the stove league, including Yang Eui-ji, the "FA's biggest fish," and Raúl Alcantara, the "20-win ace," Lee succeeded in cleaning up the shock of ranking ninth in a year. Lee, who took the helm of Doosan without any leadership experience, made meaningful achievements by advancing to the postseason from his first year.

At that time, however, Doosan failed to fully enjoy the joy of returning to the fall baseball league as it fell to fifth place after a tie for third place until the end of the season. Many said that it would have been possible to rank higher than fifth place, rather than the joy of jumping from ninth to fifth place. And the much-anticipated fall baseball ended in vain in just one game.

The 2024 season has been a series of bad luck. As foreign pitchers such as Alcantara, Brandon Waddell, and Keisho Shirakawa suffered tightrope injuries, all of the mound plans that he devised during the spring camp were inconsistent. Choi Seung-yong's injury and Choi Won-jun's poor performance were also unexpected variables. And this naturally led to controversy over the overuse of young bullpen pitchers such as Choi Ji-gang, Lee Byung-hun, and Kim Taek-yeon.

Coach Lee Seung-yeop led his team to fourth place (74 wins, two draws and 68 losses) in the regular season despite the collapse of the team's starting lineup, and advanced to the post season for the second consecutive year. Again, however, the spirit of fall turned a blind eye to Doosan. For the first time in a long time, the team went through a hard time in losing both games to the fifth-ranked team for the first time in a wild card game to mark the post season held at home. While the fifth-ranked team had two wins in the first round, it had never won the second round.

Manager Lee Seung-yeop, who is already in his last year of contract, met with reporters in the final match of the professional baseball exhibition game against KT Wiz, which was scheduled to be held at Suwon KT Wiz Park on the 18th, and declared, "I have no personal resolution this year."

Four days before the opening of the regular season, Lee said, "I will just join forces with the players so that our Doosan Bears can regain its former reputation. I naturally think that I need to improve my performance every year, and I will try to win even once more."

Regarding the renewal of his contract, he surprised the reporters with his somewhat unconventional remarks. "My renewal has nothing to do with anything. I don't think about renewing my contract at all. I just want our Doosan Bears to become a team that can receive a lot of applause and support this year," coach Lee Seung-yeop said in a frank statement.

He is ready to regain his past reputation through exhibition games. He witnessed the powerful pitching of Cole Irvin and Jack Rogue, dubbed the best foreign pitcher duo of all time, and discovered new faces named Kim Min-seok and Oh Myung-jin in the fielding team for the first time in a long time, bringing a fresh wind to the lineup. If "strong No. 2 hitter" Kim Jae-hwan and new foreign hitter Jake Cave pop up, Lee Seung-yeop's inaugural address "to play the Korean Series within three years" will become a reality, not a dream.

"The biggest benefit of this exhibition game is that we lost a lot unlike last year," coach Lee Seung-yeop said. "We have checked a lot of players we want to check, and we have also checked well the performance that can be displayed during this season. The growth of young players has been noticeable, and new captain (Yang Eui-ji) has led the mood well. I feel like everything is much better than last year. We are able to start this season with high expectations," he said, vowing to take a leap forward.