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| Shinsegae Choo, who signed an annual salary of 2.7 billion won with the Shinsegae Group E-Mart baseball team, returned to Korea through Incheon International Airport on the 25th. © News1 |
SK Wyverns is the team where Jung Geun-woo, who is evaluated as the best second baseman in KBO League, has blossomed. He played for the SK Wyverns from 2005 to 2014, contributing to the victory of the Korean Series three times, playing an active part as a staple player. However, the retired team was not SK.
After applying for a free agent (FA), Jung Geun-woo rejected an offer of 7 billion won and left for Hanwha Eagles. Since then, through the LG Twins, he retired in November of last year, and he was unable to reconnect with SK.
However, I did a’definitive’ special assist to my former team, which I can call my family. Shinsegae Group E-Mart baseball team gave a big ball to persuade Choo Shin-soo, who was struggling with his’best friend’.
Choo Shin-soo, who signed a contract with the Shinsegae Baseball Team, entered Korea through Incheon Airport on the 25th. This is the first time that Choo Shin-soo, who jumped on a plane to the US, dreaming of’American Dream’ as soon as he graduated from Busan High School, played in the KBO League.
Choo Shin-soo’s seven-year contract with the Texas Rangers expired after the end of the season last year, but was expected to continue to play in the major leagues. I only had to choose which team to play after receiving offers from 8 teams. However, after Shinsegae Group took over SK Wyverns, it actively moved to recruit Shin-soo Choo, who was a special candidate for overseas group, and paid off.
As soon as Choo exited the arrival hall, Shinsegae baseball team quickly prepared a’uniform’. INCHEON was engraved on the front, and Choo Shin-soo and 17 were engraved on the back.
Shin-soo Choo said, “I came back to Korea after 20 years, but I still can’t feel it. I decided to join Shinsegae with a really difficult time. I am having a hard time not only having my children (2 sons and 1 daughters) but my wife separated. So maybe this time on an airplane He revealed that it was a difficult decision, saying, “The footsteps of riding were heavy.”
It was Jeong Geun-woo’s advice that led Choo Shin-soo, who had a lot of trouble, to Korea. Jung Geun-woo was one of the ‘1982 Golden Members’ and played baseball with Choo Shin-soo at Busan High School. It was also the only friend that Choo Shin-soo had contacted after receiving the New World offer.
Shin-soo Choo said, “I only talked with one of my friends, (Jung) Geun-woo. I’m really close friends, so I’m talking deep inside,” he said. “I was willing to play in the KBO league, so I asked for opinions, and at first I expressed concern. Majors. “I was worried that I, who played in the league for a long time, would adapt well in Korea, where the environment is very different from the United States.”
“But (positively) we talked more. Geunwoo advised me,’I retire at your age, and it would be nice to have the opportunity to give dreams and hopes to many people on a new stage.’ He added that he was more willing to play in the KBO league.
Choo Shin-soo ended his major league life when he joined Shinsegae. He shook his head to the question,’Aren’t you sad that you couldn’t hold a retirement ceremony in the major leagues?’
He said, “I’m not enough to be a player who will (greatly) go to retirement. I’ve never thought so. It’s just a pity that the last game was played without spectators in the aftermath of the novel coronavirus infection (Corona 19).”
Choo Shin-soo, who expressed his ambition to make Shinsegae a prestigious club to compete for the championship again, said, “There is no particularly preferred position or batting order. That is the decision of Director Kim Won-hyung. All I have to do is make my body hard and prepare for the game.” Chopped.
On the other hand, Choo Shin-soo is preparing for the first season of the KBO league by joining the Shinsegae Baseball Team on March 11 after self-quarantine for two weeks.