[엑스포츠뉴스 김현세 기자] On the 13th, Doosan Bears asked KBO to suspend the qualifications of Jung Hyun-wook and Kwon Ki-young. Debt, illegal sports Toto, and speculative website access.
Doosan said that there was a recent contact regarding Hyun-wook Jung. It was a debt story. As Doosan, who does not know English, I had to interview him. And it was revealed that the sports Toto was used. Moreover, there was a debt problem. As Doosan, it was necessary to conduct an overall survey of the squad.
After a full investigation, it was revealed that Kwon Ki-young also accessed an inappropriate speculative site. Doosan identified the deviation of the two players and immediately submitted the information to the KBO Clean Baseball Center. Doosan said, “We plan to actively cooperate with the KBO and the investigative authorities in the future,” and said it would do its best to prevent recurrence.
Both players were born in 99 and are 23 years old. Although he was a futures team player with no first team experience, he was a player with a promising future. Kwon Ki-young was a player who dreamed of growing up as a catcher at Doosan after transferring to the trade early last year. In addition, since it was a military catcher who only needed to focus on training, the team’s expectations were also high, but it was in vain.
Jung Hyun-wook joined Doosan after receiving the 59th place in the second round of the 6th round in the 2019 rookie draft. As a powerful fastball pitcher, he was evaluated as going well with the color of the Doosan mound. Last season, he played 21 matches in the Futures League and threw 35⅓ innings, hitting an average ERA of 4.33, which showed the possibility, but he could not be included in Doosan’s future plans.
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