“I’m not saying it’s over…카지노사이트“

NC captain Son Ah-seop, 35, boasts the fourth-best batting average (0.321) among all KBO players with more than 3,000 at-bats. For Son, the first season of his four-year, 6.4 billion won free agent contract with NC was a shock. In 138 games, he batted .277 with four home runs, 48 RBIs, 72 runs scored, and a .714 OPS.

These weren’t bad numbers, but if you’re the star of the show, you have to call it a slump. He felt that his preparation for this season shouldn’t be the same as in previous years, so in January, he visited Jung-ho Kang, who runs a baseball academy in Los Angeles, for a month of special lessons.

As a result, I found myself stuck in my own hitting and stingy in accepting new things, he said at the Tucson spring training in February. He confessed that his hitting had unknowingly broken down. He couldn’t produce line drives, and he found fewer pitches to hit.

After training with Kang Jeong-ho and pulling data, he found a way to correct his launch angle by about 20 degrees and increase the course he could hit. Ahead of the Changwon KIA game on Nov. 27, Son said, “I know the way, and I have to go there. It gave me a direction. I have to walk it.” He said.

He spoke candidly. “I was lost in the beginning,” he said, but he didn’t struggle for long at the beginning of the season. This season, the quality of his shots has improved and the number of courses he can hit has increased. He worked on his swing trajectory and launch angle.

As a result, he leads the league with a .331 batting average through 29 days. On the 29th, he went 0-for-4 against KT in Changwon, allowing Guillermo Heredia (SSG, 0.331) to catch up. But for Son, who has been eating up the No. 2 and No. 3 spots in the batting order, this season is his chance to break out.

“I’ve gotten better. I don’t have a ground ball that doesn’t have power. I’ve been killed by lake water. I’m getting hit more.” But the batting king isn’t thinking, and he’s not letting his guard down. In fact, he pushes himself too hard.

“Even if you hit a four, you’re going to have anxiety. I went through a slump last year. I don’t know when it will happen again. You can’t let your guard down. If I get five hits today, that’s it. Tomorrow, you might not get a hit. When I had a bad season, there were people saying that I had an ‘aging curve’ or that I was ‘done,’ and that made me realize that I shouldn’t get down on myself.”

Another thing to note is that he has adapted perfectly to the life of a designated hitter. Many batters think that not playing defense is awkward and will affect their batting. However, Son has learned to play less defense than in previous years and still have less of an impact on his production.

He uses the time when his teammates are playing defense as a time for specific batting practice. He explains that he even sets up a T-bar behind the dugout and tries to time it. “I don’t know how I used to play 1200 innings a year,” Son said. After a long time, I went out on defense and praised myself, saying, ‘I’m really good. I was worried about losing weight during the season, but now that I’m not playing defense, I’m losing less. Humans are creatures of adaptation, and I’ve adapted to being a designated hitter.”