San Diego of’Ozzy Smith’ dreams of winning ML with Ha-Sung Kim [성일만 야구선임기자의 핀치히터]

The destination for Kim Ha-seong, 25, was decided at the Port of San Diego. US media reported on the 29th (Korean time) that Kim Ha-sung and San Diego Padres had reached a contract agreement. The contract size is known to be between $7 million and $8 million (approximately 8.8 billion won) per year for four years.

When I heard this news, I had two thoughts.

First Oh, San Diego is definitely different. San Diego is a team that has never won the World Series. The National League’s West Division’s Los Angeles Dodgers (7 wins) and the San Francisco Giants (8) did not make the impression of a 10,000-year sub-team.

San Diego surprised fans with a 10-year contract with Manny Machado earlier last year of $300 million. The first reaction at the time was no way. San Diego held Cy Young Award winner Blake Snell in their arms through a trade on the 28th.

San Diego President and General Manager AJ Preller is on the forefront. In this case, I don’t know Kim Ha-seong. At that time, San Diego was not listed in the list of destinations for Kim Ha-seong. Surprisingly, another surprise news came in a day.

another one. San Diego is the origin of the’legendary’ shortstop Ozzie Smith. Smith was selected as the 15th All-Star, and is synonymous with defending shortstop with gold gloves in his arms for 13 consecutive years. If you were good at defending, would you have given the nickname’Mage’?

His name Ozzie is a nickname given to him because it is similar to OZ in the movie’The Wizard of Oz’. Ozzie Smith was named in the Hall of Fame in his first year of qualification in 2002. 91.7% of votes. The reporter who, arguably, did not vote for him must be either a racist or a prejudiced figure of overly undermining defense in baseball.

Smith was nominated to Detroit in 1976 when he was a senior in college. A down payment of $10,000 was requested, but the club insisted on $8500. Eventually the following year, he knocked on the door of a pro again and entered San Diego. San Diego traded Smith for the St. Louis Cardinals in late 1981.

Smith retired in 1996 after playing for 15 years at St. Louis. Smith recorded 8375 Assists in total. This is a major league record that is still unbroken. His defensive movement, reminiscent of an acrobat, is evaluated as a state of art.

It is a good sign that shortstop Kim Ha-sung has entered the port of San Diego, where Ozzie Smith made his first major league step.

It is also timely to arrive at a time when San Diego has washed its impressions of the sub-team for its ten thousand years and is investing relentlessly toward winning its first World Series.

Ozzie Smith put St. Louis at the top of the World Series on the move in 1982. It has been a championship in 15 years since 1967. It would also be significant if the outstanding shortstop Kim Ha-seong led San Diego to his first year championship.

In San Diego, shortstop Fernando Tatis Jr., and third baseman Manny Machado are “super-dead”. San Diego couldn’t have spent a lot of money bringing in duplicate positions with them.

Therefore, second baseman is dominant right now.

There have been many speculations about the destination of Haseong Kim. In the end, it was decided to San Diego, which is famous for the best weather in the United States. I have a good feeling for some reason.

Reporter Seong Il-man [email protected]