"Try baseball until you can" With his wife's words, KT will be released → Lotte's decision to return... He seeks to make a comeback after overcoming 'injury misdiagnosis'

"Try baseball until you can" With his wife's words, KT will be released → Lotte's decision to return... He seeks to make a comeback after overcoming 'injury misdiagnosis'

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Leaving his 13-year-old career behind, he also won a championship. However, he came back to his hometown team after four years ahead of the end of his career. This is the story of Park Si-young (36) of the Lotte Giants.온라인카지노

Lotte is familiar to Park Si-young. After graduating from Jemulpo High School, Lotte joined the team as its first professional team in 2008. During his first eight seasons, he played in only two games in the first team, but he received the opportunity in earnest from 2016. In 2019, he recorded one win, one loss, and four holds with an ERA of 4.23 in 43 games.

Since then, Park has joined Shin Bon-ki in a 2-1 trade with KT Wiz in December 2020. With KT, Park has become a completely different pitcher by increasing his sliders' pitching ratio and using high fastballs. Notably, he helped his team win the title with 12 holds and an earned run average of 2.40. As a result, he also had the pleasure of becoming the first player to receive a large annual salary.

However, he blew the entire next season after undergoing elbow surgery in 2022, and failed to appear in the first division last year after playing in 26 games on July 21. Eventually, he was released by KT after the end of last year's regular season. Soon after, he signed with Lotte, and built a new nest.

Park Si-young, who joined Lotte's Futures Camp and is training, told Star News, "Lotte was the first to contact me after the release. I was grateful that other teams carefully told me about the contract and so on." He said, "I had the mindset that I could do well, but I was worried because I set up a base in Gyeonggi-do after getting married," and added, "I said I want to go to Busan and do it because my wife got permission to 'do it until I can't play baseball."

There was another reason why he chose Lotte despite the offers from many teams. "Before, I couldn't show as much as KT. That's why I wanted to show good performance at Lotte," Park said. "At the end, my team wants to finish the game well by showing good results together."

Lotte is back after a four-year hiatus, but it's not awkward yet. It's because rookie players such as Jeon Joon-woo (39) and Jeong Hoon (38) and Son Seong-bin (23) and Choi Jun-yong (24) were also with them when they were rookies. "I feel nothing awkward even though it's been a long time since I came here," Park Si-young said. "I feel like I've been with you forever," adding, "I think I've gotten along better with other players."

Since he hardly pitched in the second half of last year, there may be concerns about Park's physical condition. In response, he came up with an unexpected story. "I was examined at a hospital and he said I shouldn't throw the ball. As a result, it was a misdiagnosis," Park said. "I can throw enough, but that's what happened because of the diagnosis."

Anyway, the past has passed. Park said, "I don't really care about that anymore. I still have the opportunity to come to my old team and keep exercising, so I won't care about what passed."

Regarding her recent condition, Park said, "I'm doing well, pitching and following all training schedules." She added, "I'm 100 percent in good condition. I'm not sick anywhere, and I can pitch normally. I feel like I'm back on track."

The Lotte Futures team will depart for Tainan, Taiwan on Tuesday for overseas camp. "I didn't come from Sangdong (second division) but from Sajik (first division) to achieve good results together. I want to be in the top team and help my team advance to fall baseball together," Park said.