Shin-soo Choo (39), who recently transferred from the Texas Rangers in the US Major League to the KBO League Shinsegae Group E-Mart (SK Wyverns), entered self-isolation in Changwon.
On the 26th, an official from the E-Mart club said in a call with the Gyeongnam Newspaper, “Soon Shin-soo Choo moved to Changwon in a vehicle prepared by an agent company immediately after returning to Korea on the 24th. “I am self-quarantine for two weeks at a hostel in Changwon prepared by the club.”
A club official explained that the reason why Shin-soo Choo self-isolates in Changwon, not Incheon, the home of the E-Mart club, is to join the team immediately after the quarantine is lifted. The E-Mart team currently in the spring camp in Jeju stays in the Yeongnam area around March 10, the day of the removal of Choo Shin-soo’s self-isolation, so this is to minimize the movement to join the team.
After finishing the first camp schedule on March 5, the athletes will enter the second camp schedule by playing a practice match against Lotte Giants in Busan on the 8th of the same month and kt Wiz in Ulsan on the 11th.
It is said that it has not been decided whether Choo will join from Busan or Ulsan.
An official from the club said, “We provided various indoor training equipment, KBO league data and video data,” so that Shin-soo Choo could maintain his condition even during self-quarantine.
Recently, Choo Shin-soo returned to domestic professional baseball by signing an annual salary contract of 2.7 billion won with Shinsegae Group E-Mart, which acquired SK Wyverns, leaving the offer of eight major league teams behind.
Choo Shin-soo, who joined the Shinsegae E-Mart baseball team while playing an active part in the Texas Rangers of the American Professional Baseball Major League (MLB), returns to Korea through Incheon International Airport Terminal 2 on the 25th and poses for the reporters after wearing a temporary team uniform. yunhap news
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