The 2024 season of Lotte Giants is new year. This is because Kim Tae-hyung, the "winning contractor," has joined as the head of the team. Fans believed that the strong Kim Tae-hyung leadership, which had not been in Lotte, would lead Lotte to the championship.

Early in the season, however, was rough. The team had eight consecutive losses in shock that it had never experienced before as a manager of the Doosan Bears. It had two wins and one draw against the KT Wiz to pull out of last place, but the gap with top-ranked teams is still wide. In fact, if it were not for KT, which has been in a bad mood recently, it would not have been easy to guarantee a win in weekend performance.

Grades come first in the professional world.

However, there is something that is definitely changing. The "iron rice bowl" culture is disappearing.

Lotte has not won a championship title since 1992. But that doesn't mean it didn't spend money. It poured huge amounts of money into numerous star players. Again this year, there are talks of investment failure for Yoo Kang-nam, Noh Jin-hyuk, and Han Hyun-hee's "FA 17 Billion Won Trio" to join the second division.

There are many stars, but the players' performance has rarely been combined into a single team and poured out condensed energy. It's hard not to use it because they paid for it, but if the players don't do their best to take the first team position, it's only a moment when the team is ruined. Money is money, but because they are still average players, the leaders ruined the season waiting for their performance, thinking, "One day, they will do it."

That's why Lotte expected Kim to take control of the team. Even during his time at Doosan, when some star players acted unnoticed, Kim unconditionally deleted them from the roster, stabilizing the mood of the team.

Such an atmosphere has also been detected in Lotte recently.

The message "Without talent, there will be no place for the first team." In addition to the FA trio mentioned above, Kim Min-seok, who had 100 hits as a rookie last season, was also informed of his move to the second team, giving way to Hwang. Kim is Lotte's proud rising star. Such a player has been given opportunities and nurtured at the club level, but it was not enough for Kim.

High-potential players such as Ko Seung-min and Na Seung-yup were also given the opportunity at first, but they couldn't prove it, and they went to the second division without hesitation. On the 22nd, Lee Hak-joo, who has been hitless in the last seven consecutive games, was withdrawn from the second division. Since the opening of the season, the bat has been so good that his batting average has been 366 percent despite his recent slump, but manager Kim was not too disappointed.

He doesn't even say anything back. When Ko Seung-min and Na Seung-yup were mentioned, Kim said straightforwardly, "I haven't received any reports that could have come up. If you want to post someone, you have to unload someone, but it's not to the extent that it is." When the names of Yoo Kang-nam, Noh Jin-hyuk, and Han Hyun-hee were mentioned, "It's right to use players who are good now. Of course, the main players should do well, but we can't have vague expectations because those players will do it unconditionally when they are not doing well right now. Of course, if there are reports that they are doing well in the second division, we will of course post them. I have to do well even after I come up. Or I go down again." Lotte players should always be nervous regardless of their annual salary or name value so that they can play baseball in the first division.

If I have to compare Lotte with Doosan, there was a baseball called "Hwabun" in which a newly appointed player took over the position even when a player went down. Manager Kim's management of the team was easy. However, compared to Doosan, Lotte does not have many players who can generate a sensation. As a result, the team's losing streak has been extended, and the team pushed for Son Ho-young's trade in a hurry.

However, Lotte seems to want to use this incident as an opportunity to improve the team's constitution.

If you don't change the minds of the players who are soaked in inertia, saying, "I'm going to come up in 10 days even if I go to the second division, you won't be able to take me out."

It may take some time, but without this bone-cutting improvement, they began to realize that grades never follow luck. This is an important change.

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