Hanwha's best trade ever, reuniting with a master → Step-up at the age of 36 without 10kg...It was impossible to win seven consecutive games without Choi Jae-hoon

Hanwha's best trade ever, reuniting with a master → Step-up at the age of 36 without 10kg...It was impossible to win seven consecutive games without Choi Jae-hoon

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Cody Ponce, a foreign pitcher who is leading the great leap of the Hanwha Eagles in the professional baseball league, said catcher Choi Jae-hoon (36). "I plan the game well and share it. I always throw the autograph that Choi Jae-hoon gives with 100 percent confidence. I met the catcher well," Ponce said.

Hanwha set the record for the most tie in the team by winning seven consecutive games from Moon Dong-ju against Kiwoom in Daejeon on the 13th to Ponce against NC on the 20th. Choi Jae-hoon was the starting catcher in six of them, the first record in 24 years since 2001. Starting pitchers who combined for seven consecutive wins, including Ponce, Ryan Weiss, Ryu Hyun-jin, Moon Dong-ju and Um Sang-baek, threw well, but we cannot forget the ball of catcher Choi Jae-hoon, who showed good teamwork. Choi Jae-hoon said, "I'm really happy as a catcher because the starting pitchers continue to win. It's a possible record because there were bullpen pitchers who kept the starting win."
Originally, he was a catcher with good defense, but his rate of blocking stolen bases has significantly improved this year. While allowing seven stolen bases, he garnered five, and his rate of blocking stands at 41.7 percent. He is the second among 12 catchers who defended more than 80 innings after NC Dinosaurs Kim Hyung-joon (55.6 percent). This is the highest figure in his career. Some of the pitchers' slide steps have improved, but Choi Jae-hoon's pop time has basically accelerated.

Choi Jae-hoon said, "Battery coach Kim Jung-min gave me a lot of practice of moving quickly, starting with using the lower body. As I practice repeatedly every day, I am getting movements that fit my body. Thank you so much to my coach."

At the age of 36, he stepped up at an age that would not be strange even if he experienced an aging curve. After the end of last year's season, Choi lost more than 10 kilograms by thoroughly managing his diet. When he joined Doosan Bears as a pro-baseball player in 2008, Choi lost weight by saying that he had to lose weight if he wants to do it for a long time. He lost several belts in his uniform, and his face has halved.

The effect is reflected in the performance that he has displayed today. "I may lose weight as I get older, but I am moving and practicing more not to lose weight," Choi said. "After losing weight, I am keeping it the same. Losing weight makes my body lighter and I am so happy to be able to move well."

Manager Kim Kyung-moon, a former catcher, also praised Choi Jae-hoon's concentration at the batter's box, saying, "It seems like one year old and one year old are nothing, but the catcher is particularly different. He also praised Choi Jae-hoon's concentration at the batter's box, saying, "I made him throw a lot of balls by getting a walk after a 10-pitch match with opposing starter Mitch White in the 5th inning against Munhak SSG on the 17th. In the end, the pitcher didn't finish the inning, and the flow changed," Choi said. Choi Jae-hoon said, "White said it was about 70 to 80 pitches (because it was his first appearance since the injury), so I thought I could get off quickly if I could hold on a little longer. That's what happened after holding on somehow."

This season, Choi Jae-hoon is batting .289 (11 hits in 38 at-bats) in 21 games and has a .316 OPS.780 slugging percentage of .464 on-base hits with 6 RBIs and 10 walks and 5 walks. Since the game against Doosan in Jamsil on the 9th, when Hanwha has turned upward, its performance in the last nine games has been .353 (six hits in 17 at-bats) with 5 RBIs, 7 walks and 3 on-base hits.522 slugging percentage of .412 OPS.964.

He said, "I was impatient because I didn't get a hit well in the beginning, but somehow I tried to bully the opposing pitcher and live. "When I have a runner, I try to let him go one more base." Choi ranks second in on-base percentage among 87 batters with more than 50 on-base hits. Choi Jae-hoon, who ranks first in his team with 4.4 pitches per batter, is showing high productivity in the bottom eight batting order and hits accordingly with three sacrifice flies.

After being traded from Doosan to Hanwha in mid-April 2017, Choi emerged as the starting catcher. Hanwha, which received Choi Jae-hoon after giving Shin Seong-hyun, a promising player at the time, instantly resolved the difficulty of young catcher. Having played in more than 100 games consistently for nine years, Choi is considered the best trade success in the club's history. 토토사이트

After signing a five-year, up to 5.4 billion won FA contract after the 2021 season, he continued his compliance, and this year is also supporting Hanwha's rise, which has jumped to second place with 10 wins and 1 loss in 11 games, including seven consecutive wins. Choi Jae-hoon, who was also one of Hanwha's last autumn baseball players in 2018, said, "It would be nice to continue the winning streak, but it is important not to fall into a losing streak when you lose. If we continue our momentum without losing consecutively, our team will have more power."