"It's an emergency." Coach Kim Kyung-moon's conviction was also broken…Hanwha's batters scored 0 points again. I almost got humiliated

"It's an emergency." Coach Kim Kyung-moon's conviction was also broken…Hanwha's batters scored 0 points again. I almost got humiliated

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Kim Kyung-moon, head coach of Hanwha Eagles, described the current team's batting lineup as an "emergency situation" ahead of the match against Samsung in Daegu on the 5th. When the team's batting average was in the 10% range for more than 10 games to open, and he could hardly get out of the swamp of sluggishness, manager Kim Kyung-moon gave up his "fixed position." He broke his conviction.먹튀검증

When he was the head coach of Doosan and NC, Kim fixed key fielders at one position. Rather than multi-positioning that crosses multiple positions, he encouraged players to secure their position in one position. He argues that only when positions are fixed can individual players as well as the team become much more stable and empowered.

Kim was assigned to Hanwha during the last season, and was not able to immediately add his own color to the team, but was assigned a fixed position from the end of the season to this year's spring camp. Kim Tae-yeon, who had been going back and forth between inside and outside, focused on the outfield instead of the infield, and Moon Hyun-bin also practiced only at the third base to have the second base as his main position. By fixing the position, he is expected to bring stability to the defense.

However, baseball did not go as planned. Starting out in left field, Kim put on the first baseman's mitts again, and Moon Hyun-bin went out to the outfield for the first time in two years. Moon Hyun-bin, who entered the left field defense after pinch-hitting in the eighth inning against Daegu Samsung on the 4th, played as a substitute in center field on the 5th, and was listed in the starting lineup as center field on the 6th.

"Since the batting is not working as well as I thought, Hyun Bin is also playing defense in the outfield to prepare for it. I think I will play in the outfield as well while playing third base. I played center field two years ago as well," Kim said. "Taeyeon also goes to first base when Ahn Chi-hong or Chae Eun-seong plays designated hitter. If a player plays two positions rather than one, he or she has more chances to play."

"I only want one position (from fielders), but our situation is an emergency," Kim said, adding that he had no choice but to deploy multiple positions. To revive the slumping batting lineup, the team has no choice but to include as many fielders as possible even at the risk of weakening defense. Although the moves do not match Kim's long-term opinions and pre-season plans, the batting lineup is not as good as it is.

Hanwha, which suffered one hit, one run and one run until the seventh inning against Samsung on the 5th, won a 7-6 come-from-behind victory in the eighth inning with Moon Hyun-bin's solo shot and Lee Jin-young's two-run shot and Moon Hyun-bin's come-from-behind three-run home run in the ninth inning. Foreign batter Esteban Floral also had two hits and multiple hits, including a double, to see if his blood was stuffy, but it was a temporary "dead cat bounce."

Hanwha's batting lineup remained silent again against Samsung on Wednesday. Until Moon Hyun-bin, the leadoff hitter at the eighth inning, had a hit to the right, he was dragged perfectly by Samsung's starting pitcher Denny Reyes. Few hitters were hit well. Immediately after his first hit, Noh Si-hwan hit a double play, and the runner who struggled disappeared instantly, and ended up with 27 hitters and one hitless until the ninth inning without getting on base any more.

Hanwha, which failed to move beyond the 10th place with four wins and nine losses after losing 0-10 to Samsung, already has four scoreless matches. Last year, it took 57 matches to scoreless in four matches, but this year is the first time in 13 matches. It is not even a soccer team, but 30.8 percent of the matches are scoreless. The team's batting average (.169), on-base percentage (.249), slugging percentage (.264), and OPS (.513) are all unrivaled in the 10th place, scoring an average of 2.7 points. The team ranks fifth (4.61) in ERA, and the mound is averaging the league average, but since the batters are not aligned, just three to four points is a difficult game.

Floral (.128), Roh Si-hwan (.163), Chae Eun-seong (.167), Shim Woo-joon (.179), and Kim Tae-yeon (.196), all of whom have batting average of around 100%, are now five hitters. Up to Ahn Chi-hong (.067) who is less than 10%, the main hitters who are supposed to hit are in a group slump. Although the number of hitters has not been accumulated significantly, batting luck is not good enough, and the batting cycle is too serious to dismiss as a low point.

Given baseball's abnormally low level, which converges to the average, the batting average will likely rise little by little. Given that best players have been deployed without significant injuries so far, however, chances are high that the upward trajectory will not be significant. Coach Kim Kyung-moon has given up his fixed position and started to operate lineup to strengthen batting, but it remains to be seen whether such a change will change the fundamentals of his team's batters. Other than Ha, the team lacks additional power that the batters can expect, which makes it all the more frustrating.