LG's first 'light speed ball' season...Lotte's real talent, Yoon Sungbin, has another chance after 10 months
LG's first 'light speed ball' season...Lotte's real talent, Yoon Sungbin, has another chance after 10 months
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Yoon Sung-bin (26), the painful finger of the Lotte Giants, will make his first appearance in the first division this season.토토사이트
Lotte selected Yoon Sung-bin as the starting pitcher for the home game against the LG Twins in the "2025 Shinhan SOL Bank KBO League" to be held at Sajik Stadium on the 20th.
Lotte canceled right-hander bullpen Jung Woo-joon from the first-team entry on the 19th, setting up Yoon Sung-bin's position, which had never been called up this season, a day earlier.
Yoon Sung-bin took the mound in the first team game in 9 months and 24 days (294 days) since the match against Incheon SSG Landers on July 30 last year.
Last year, the SSG match was his first and last first team appearance.
It was also the first time in three years, two months, and 11 days (1166 days) since the game against the Doosan Bears in Jamsil on May 21, 2021.
Yoon Sung-bin desperately needed to take the mound in the first division, but in last year's SSG match, which was a rare opportunity, he lost the game with four hits (one homer) and two walks, one strikeout and five runs in one inning as a starting pitcher.
Spraying a fastball of 150 kilometers per hour even if thrown lightly, he showed his potential for development by using a forkball of up to 140 kilometers.
However, it is true that when the fielders' defense was not supported, they had difficulties in the operation of the game or threw a disappointing pitch rapidly.
"It would have been better if I had held out well in the beginning," Lotte manager Kim Tae-hyung said. "I understand how much our club has high expectations for (Yoon) Sung-bin, but he is still in a hurry to throw. There are many things to improve."
Nevertheless, one of the reasons why Yoon Sung-bin was given the opportunity again in less than a year is that there were not many traces of improvement in last year's complementary points.
He returned to the Futures League again after his first appearance in the first division last year, contributing to Lotte's victory by taking two games in the "2024 Ulsan-KBO Fall League" held in October, with one win and no loss, two hits, one walk and five strikeouts in three innings.
Yoon Sung-bin, who saw the clue of a turnaround, continued his senses in this year's Futures League with two wins and no losses in six games, a 2.11 ERA, and a 1.13 WHIP per inning.
In terms of pitching content, the possibility of development was also small.
In the match against the Hampyeong KIA Tigers on the 12th of last month, there were so few on-base hits (one hit, two walks) allowed during five innings of 10-strikeout and no run.
A week later, in the match against the Samsung Lions in Sangdong on the 19th, he made a quality start (QS, pitching more than 6 innings and 3 earned runs or less) with 6 walks and 8 strikeouts and no runs in 6 innings.
Ten days later, against LG in Icheon on the 29th, he struck out as many as 10 while facing 19 batters in 4.1 innings.
All that remains is to continue the balance of pitching in the Futures League in the first division.
If Yoon Sung-bin meets manager Kim's expectations of giving him another chance, it could be a hope for Lotte, which is struggling to build its starting lineup due to the release of foreign pitcher Charlie Barnes and the absence of five starts.
Yoon Sung-bin, who has been in incomplete waiting for years since joining Lotte as the first designated player in 2017, has one win and one loss in two career games against LG, ERA 4.82 (5 runs in 9.1 innings) and WHIP 1.61.
On April 7, 2018, in the match against Sajik LG, he won the start with two runs in five innings.