Wow, look at the chemistry of "Google shortstop-MVP third baseman." He threw the ball directly and taught me defense. "I wanted to instill confidence mentally."
Wow, look at the chemistry of "Google shortstop-MVP third baseman." He threw the ball directly and taught me defense. "I wanted to instill confidence mentally."
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KIA Tigers' Park Chan-ho (30) introduced an anecdote about his defensive practice with his junior Kim Do-young (22) of the same team early last season.
Park Chan-ho appeared on the YouTube channel "Cyber Yoon Seok-min" run by former professional baseball player Yoon Seok-min with his teammate Choi Won-joon on the 7th. Asked if he had taught his junior Kim Do-young defense last season, Park Chan-ho nodded, "I told him a little bit in the beginning."
"I don't think it's any better because I taught you. Of course, I might have given you tips and tips, but I threw the ball myself and kept repeating it indoors. I said, 'Doyoung, let's make it like a routine every day from today'," he said. "This doesn't mean that Doyoung's ability will increase in a short period of time. I just wanted to give him confidence that 'I did this, so I can handle this today.' "
Kim, who entered his third year in the regular season last year, displayed impressive batting performance. He played in 141 games during the regular season, recording a batting average of 0.347 with 38 homers, 109 RBIs, 143 runs, 40 steals, and OPS of 1.067, breaking various new records including 30 homers and 30 steals as the youngest player, 100 runs scored in a single game, and the most in a single season.
Kim Do-young, who reigned as the best hitter in the league, served as the spearhead of the team's unified championship, and based on these performances, he finished the season with a two-time batting champion (score, slugging percentage), regular season MVP, and third baseman Golden Glove. At the 2024 WBSC Premier 12 tournament, which continued to have a good atmosphere, he received foreign media attention by playing a batting average of 0.412 (7 hits in 17 at-bats), three home runs, 10 RBIs, and one stolen OPS of 1.503 in five games.
However, Kim also had one weakness: defense. Kim committed 30 mistakes last season, ranking first in the league 먹튀검증. The number was overwhelmingly large compared to 23 of Park Chan-ho and SSG Landers Park Sung-han, who were second in the league. At the end of last year's award ceremony, Kim himself recognized what he needed to supplement to score 80 points on his performance, not 100 points.
It was senior Park Chan-ho who instilled confidence in Kim Do-young. Park Chan-ho, who joined the team after solving military problems in the 2019 season, took over the vacancy caused by the retirement of current KIA manager Lee Bum-ho, who was the main third baseman at the time, and was responsible for 92 games and 692 innings. From the 2020 season, he consistently played as KIA's main shortstop and played more than 1,000 innings every year, showing off his stable defense. He was recognized for his defensive ability by winning the KBO Defensive Award, which was newly established in 2023.
Park Chan-ho, who was stigmatized as the "dark batting king" by recording the lowest batting average among hitters with a batting average of 0.223 in the 2020 season, has also made great strides in batting and achieved a batting average of 0.301-0.307 for the last two consecutive years. Park Chan-ho, who went on the stage of the 2024 Golden Glove Awards alongside Kim Do-young, recently appeared on Kim Tae-kyun's YouTube channel "Kim Tae-kyun [TK52]" run by Kim Tae-kyun and expressed his affection, saying, "If I hit the bat as much as Do-young, would I have to play shortstop?"