"I'm going to make a weapon to fight left-handed hitters and become stronger next year."

"I'm going to make a weapon to fight left-handed hitters and become stronger next year."

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Doosan finished the fall baseball with two consecutive wild-card games, but Kim Taek-yeon (19) was powerful until the last minute of the season. In the second game of the wild-card decision, a high school graduate rookie struck out two in 2.1 innings and kept scoreless in his first postseason game.스포츠토토

He wasn't nervous. The ball that he threw for the final check hit the catcher's back net. "I threw the same ball, but it flew to the back net, and I thought 'you were nervous,'" said Kim Taek-yeon, who recently started recovery training at Jamsil. "I think it was more comfortable to zero by throwing one like that."

Kim pitched 65 innings this year, posting three wins, two losses and four saves with an ERA of 2.08. He also set a new record for the most saves among high school graduates as he took the finishing post during this season. In fact, he reserved the Rookie of the Year award. Despite his ball pitching capability, he was praised for his courage to throw balls without being intimidated by runners. "I'm not just 19 years old," Doosan manager Lee Seung-yeop said several times.

"Even before our debut, I was told several times that there are not many pitchers who confidently throw balls in the middle these days," Kim said. "That's why I wanted to be such a pitcher." He is the youngest player in the entire league, but he is not conscious on the mound at all. "I think he is the same baseball player when I play with veteran players. I don't think about being 19 and just want to throw balls with spirit all the time," Kim said.

After wrapping up her debut season splendidly, she will now start preparing for next year. After the wild card game, she had a good rest by doing weight training for about a week. She started her recovery training first. This winter's task is to improve the completeness of breaking balls. "Even a pitcher can hardly afford to compete with only two sliders and fastballs, especially against left-handed hitters. Considering the worst number, I think there should be a third pitch," she said. "Looking at the indicators, the hit rate against left-handed hitters is high and the strikeout rate is low. That means that there are not enough sluggers to throw to left-handed hitters."

This season, Kim posted a batting average of 0.177 against right-handed hitters and 0.259 against left-handed hitters (including switch heaters). If he can elevate the index of left-handed hitters as well as right-handed hitters, Kim, who is in his second year, will become a much scarier pitcher than this year.