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[이데일리 윤종성 기자] San Diego Padres, an American professional baseball team with Kim Ha-seong (26), was founded in 1969 as a MLB team based in San Diego, California, USA.
It is also a team in the West Division of the National League (NL), like the Los Angeles Dodgers, who won the 2020 Major League World Series.
San Diego has not yet won the World Series. The runner-up in the World Series in 1984 and 1998 is the best.
At the time, they lost their title to the Detroit Tigers and New York Yankees respectively.
San Diego has always been behind the Dodgers and the San Francisco Giants in the NL West.
Last year, he won second place in the western district (37 wins 23 losses), and succeeded in advancing into the postseason after 14 years after 2006, but was eliminated by losing to the Dodgers in the National League Division Series.
San Diego is aiming to win this year.
Ahead of the 2021 season, it has transformed into a’win now’ team that wants to win right away by recruiting a large number of big fish players from Stove League.
It quickly emerged as the Dodgers’ opponent through a’blockbuster trade’ that gave up prospects and recruited top pitchers Blake Snell and Darvish Yu.
The catch of Ha-Sung Kim is also evaluated as part of the challenge to win.
General Manager AJ Freller is changing the team’s constitution.
With General Manager Preller’s aggressive power reinforcement, San Diego has built the league’s best infield.
Fernando Tatis Jr., from the best prospect, was the shortstop, Manny Machado, who joined a large sum of $300 million in 10 years as a free agent (FA) in 2019, third base, and Jake Cronenworth, 2020 rookie candidate, second base, Eric Hosmer. Look at first base.
Locally, it is predicted that Kronenworth will move to outfielder and use Kim Ha-sung as second baseman with the recruitment of Kim Ha-sung.
San Diego introduced Kim Ha-seong as “the first Korean beast in the club”.
However, if you expand your scope to a pitcher or leader, you will have a very deep relationship with Korea.
Pitcher Chan-ho Park was traded from the Texas Rangers to San Diego in 2005 and played until 2006. Pitcher Cha-Seung Baek also joined San Diego from 2008 to 2009.
Seong-Hun Hong, a catcher who played for the Doosan Bears and Lotte Giants, transformed into a leader and became coach of the San Diego Minor League rookie team.
In 2014, he negotiated with Kim Gwang-hyun, who was aiming to advance into the major leagues through the posting system, but presented a guarantee of about 1 million dollars per year on average, causing frustration for Kim Gwang-hyun.
Kim Gwang-Hyun re-challenged in the big leagues and made his successful debut at the St. Louis Cardinals last year.
The home stadium has been using Petco Park since 2004.
It is also the place where the Korean baseball team put the Taegeukgi on the mound after defeating Japan in the 2009 World Baseball Classic (WBC) and confirming their advance to the quarterfinals.
The command tower is director Jay Tingler, 42, born in 1980.
Although not a star, he worked as a Texas coach, took over the team in October 2019, and has high player development and data analysis skills.
Team uniforms use white, gold, and brown. The mascot is a monk named’Swinging Friar’.
Padres, the team’s name, means’bride’ in Spanish.
It is known that this originated from the establishment of a convent in San Diego in 1769 by Franciscan priests.
Steve Garvey, Tony Gwynne, Dave Winfield and Trevor Hoffman are San Diego’s permanently missing players.