Kim Beom-seok is now 'moving forward'

  seemed like this was the first time the player had been asked this question. In fact, it was the first time the reporter had asked this question. When asked, “When you were in school, did you ever hear a manager or coach tell you to hit as a left-handed hitter?” LG Kim Beom-seok said, “Never.” While giving his verbal answer, Kim Beom-seok also showed a curious expression, asking, ‘Why would you ask such a question?’

There was a time when it was popular for right-handed players to transform into 'right-handed pitchers and left-handed hitters' if they showed talent in baseball. Several student baseball leaders attempted to make right-handed fielders hit left-handed. This is because it is advantageous in many ways for a baseball player to put the glove on his left hand, throw with his right hand, and hit from a left-handed batting box that is even a little closer to first base. Even now, 'hitting right-handed and hitting left-handed' is a 'typical' commonly seen at baseball stadiums.

Kim Beom-seok's team LG alone has several top-class right-handed pitching and left-handed hitters, including Kim Hyun-soo, Oh Ji-hwan, Park Hae-min, and Hong Chang-ki. Conversely, Kim Beom-seok's talent, which appeared in an era when strong right-handed hitters were rare, is becoming an 'exciting signal' not only for LG but for the entire league.

LG Bench values ​​Uta resources, which have been around for a long time, but plans to grow them as if they are not precious. LG coach Yeom Kyung-yeop brought up the topic of 'batting order'. Although he sees Kim Beom-seok as a 'future number 4 hitter', he meant that he would not be in a hurry to put him in the number 4 batting order.

Coach Yeom is approaching the development of Kim Beom-seok by using Park Byeong-ho (KT), who received attention after joining LG in 2005 but failed to blossom and began his path to becoming a major player after transferring to Nexen Heroes in 2011, as an example.

When Park Byung-ho, who hit four consecutive home runs at Seongnam High School, was playing for LG, Coach Yeom was the LG front office and coach. Coach Yeom diagnosed that the fact that Park Byung-ho received too much of a spotlight in each game hindered his growth rate. The analysis suggests that the fact that he entered the 4th batting order too early in the name of 'feeling like the 4th batsman' was a 'defeat'. In fact, Park Byung-ho had 213 at-bats and recorded 26 at-bats as the fourth hitter in 2009, with a batting average of 0.218, 9 home runs, and 25 RBIs.

This season, Kim Beom-seok has appeared in 20 games as of the 11th, recording a batting average of 0.362 (21 hits in 58 at-bats), 3 home runs, 16 RBIs, and an OPS of 1.000. Kim Beom-seok, who has the highest batting average and OPS on the team despite falling short of the required number of at-bats, did not stand at bat as the fourth hitter.

He has not yet shown any deviation in the batting order. Kim Beom-seok recorded a batting average of 0.276 with 36 at-bats, the most as the 6th batter. He posted a batting average of 0.462 as the 5th hitter in 14 at-bats and 0.385 as the 3rd hitter in 13 at-bats. Rather, it showed a trend of producing good results in positions where the weight of the batting order was large.

Maybe this too could be a talent that Kim Beom-seok has. Being able to play your game anywhere without the pressure of batting order and numbers is also a great talent in professional baseball, which coexists with many fans and media.

LG has traditionally been a team with precious right-handed hitters. To find the right-handed hitters who led the team, such as Kim Dong-soo, the rookie of the year in 1990, the first season of LG's founding, and Han Dae-hwa, a former Haitai player and key player in the 1994 championship, you have to go a long way to find their roots. LG is carefully waiting for the day when Kim Beom-seok will change the history of the club's right-handed hitters.

 

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