I took 6 days off, but if you don't want to go on a business trip...Choi Won-tae, 'Preliminary FA', didn't even have a chance to 'recover fame' in the end

I took 6 days off, but if you don't want to go on a business trip...Choi Won-tae, 'Preliminary FA', didn't even have a chance to 'recover fame' in the end

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There was no unexpected turnaround. Choi Wontae, whom he recruited even after suffering massive bleeding to win the Korean Series last year, finished his final schedule with the LG Twins without any significant help.

LG made a huge trade during the last season. It made a trade with the Kiwoom Heroes for the trophy, which has never been won since 1994. In exchange for Choi Won-tae, who showed great performance throughout the first half of the season, he gave away all the first-round picks for the rookie draft in 2024, following Lee Joo-hyung, a promising player for the second round in 2020 and Kim Dong-gyu, a promising player for the second round in 2023.

However, Choi's performance at LG was disappointing. After playing in 17 games for Kiwoom, Choi lost three games and lost three games with a 6.70 ERA in nine games for LG. In the Korean Series, he gave up two hits, two walks and four runs (four earned runs) in ⅓ innings in his first game, and in his second game as a bullpen pitcher, he allowed two walks and one run (one earned run) in one inning.

Still, Choi's poor performance was not an obstacle for LG to win the Korean Series trophy, but it was painful that the bad trend continued until this year. Choi was below expectations with nine wins, seven losses and an ERA of 4.26 in 24 regular-season games this year, but in the semi-playoff, he failed to improve at all by allowing five hits, one walk, four strikeouts and three runs (two earned runs) in two ⅔ innings against KT Wiz. He was also smashed in the first playoff game.

Choi Won-tae, who was in charge of the first game against Samsung, collapsed with seven hits, three strikeouts and five runs (five earned), allowing two homers in three innings, and LG, which had lost the lead from the beginning of the game, finally fell to its knees without being able to turn the game around. Since then, LG has been driven to the edge of the cliff by giving up the second game. However, he succeeded in leading the series to the fourth game based on the strong pitching of Lim Chan-kyu and Elijah Hernandez in Game 3 held in Jamsil, the "home room" on the 17th.

And LG took an unexpected decision as it had to pour everything into Game 5 to lead the series to Game 5. Prior to the game, manager Yeom Kyung-yeop said, "Eliaser Hernandez, who threw 117 pitches in six postseason games to keep seven ⅓ scoreless, will not take the mound in Game 4. It was to prepare for a possible Game 5. It was also considered that he threw 60 pitches during three innings in Game 3 on the 17th. Hernandez was the most likely not to play.

However, LG added Choi Won-tae, not Hernandez, as a non-playing player, despite the fact that he would have made a full recovery by taking a six-day rest without taking the mound since taking the mound on the 13th. In other words, Choi Won-tae's name was removed from manager Yeom Kyung-yeop's plan for Game 4 of the playoffs. At one point, it was somewhat shocking that the winning move to win the Korean Series was excluded from the short-term plan.

As a result, LG's postseason ended in Game 4 of the playoffs. Although Detrick N.S., who took a long rest on the 19th and took the mound, had a quality start (three earned runs or less in six innings) with 103 pitches, one hit, two walks, and eight strikeouts during six innings, LG continued its difficult game without breaking the lineup, and Son Joo-young, who took over the mound after N.S., knelt down 0-1 when he allowed Kang Min-ho to hit the final home run in the seventh inning. 메이저사이트

In the end, Choi was not given a chance to recover his honor, and he became a free agent with only poor performance of 15.43 ERA in four postseason games (seven innings) until this year, starting with last year's Korean Series. Choi once called the "biggest fish" in the upcoming FA market, but this year's postseason was a nightmare itself.