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| KT Wiz sovereignty. 2020.11.12/News 1 © News1 Reporter Seung-bae Lee |
Interest is focused on which of the clubs and players the annual salary adjustment committee, which will be held in 10 years, will be raised.
The Korean Baseball Commission (KBO) will hold an annual salary adjustment committee for the KT Wiz club and pitcher sovereignty in the KBO conference room at 2 pm on the 25th.
Sovereignty and KT could not agree on an annual salary for the 2021 season this winter. Sovereignty wanted 250 million won, an increase of 100 million won compared to last season. However, the club proposed an increase of 70 million won to 220 million won.
The two sides could not finally reach an agreement, and the annual salary mediation committee went to arbitration. The coordination committee decides a reasonable annual salary in consideration of the player’s contribution in the previous season, the period and continuity of the player’s contribution, the official awards based on the player’s performance, the recent performance of the club, and the player’s past salary and the annual salary level of the players in the same class. do.
Sovereignty debuted in 2015 and played an active part in KT for six seasons. He started to stand out as a bullpen pitcher in 2019, and in 2020, he won the title of the league hold king with 6 wins, 2 losses and 31 holds in 77 games (70 innings).
Sovereignty has become indispensable in the KT bullpen. It was the first time that KT entered the postseason after its foundation, and sovereignty was also very active.
The club also recognizes the contribution of sovereignty. As with other players, the 2021 season’s salary was set according to the club’s own salary evaluation system. The position is that other standards cannot be applied only to sovereignty.
In the meantime, there have been a total of 97 applications for annual salary adjustment in the KBO League, and 20 meetings have been held. However, only 1 out of 20 cases (5%) were raised by the steering committee. In 2011, which was the most recent, Lee Dae-ho (Lotte), who won the 7th hitting title, also lost.
As these results show, applying for an annual salary adjustment was a difficult path for players to take. It was necessary to make a big decision because it could be rebellious against the club’s decision and ugly hair could be stuck. The sovereign’s application for annual salary adjustment was also nine years after Lee Dae-hyung in 2012.
However, times have changed, and now an agent system has been introduced that can represent the position of players. The sovereignty is also preparing a coordination committee with the help of an agent, so interest in the outcome is growing. According to this decision by the steering committee, the mood of the players’ salary negotiations in the future could also change significantly.