“Review of improvement in bullpen pitching evaluation” while confronting kt’system’
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(Seoul = Yonhap News) Reporter Choi In-young = Pitcher Sovereignty of kt wiz, a professional baseball player, rebelled against the club’s systematic salary system.
The sovereignty applied to the KBO for an annual salary adjustment in 2021.
KBO closed its application for annual salary adjustment on the 11th, and sovereignty was the only applicant.
The application for an annual salary adjustment is so rare that it came out nine years after Lee Dae-hyung (then LG Twins) in 2012.
kt offered sovereignty 200 million won in annual salary this year, but sovereignty demanded 250 million won.
The sovereignty could not accept the difference of 30 million won, so it turned over the judgment to the KBO Annual Salary Adjustment Committee.
Sovereignty’s annual salary last year was 150 million won. It rose 138% from 63 million won in 2019.
Sovereignty has been dedicated to kt’s reliable bullpen pitcher for two years.
In 2019, 71 games 75⅓ innings 6 wins 2 losses 25 holds, an average ERA of 2.99, and in 2020 77 games 70 innings 6 wins 2 losses 31 holds and an average ERA of 2.70.
For two years in a row, he played more than 70 games and 70 innings, serving as a support for the kt mound. For the second year in a row, it is about half of the 144 games in a season.
Kt, which had been in the lower ranks for 10,000 years, ranked 6th with a win rate of 50% in 2019, and last year held its first postseason by going directly to the playoffs as 2nd in the regular season.
In particular, the pitcher who supported the kt bullpen shaken in the early and mid-season of last year was the sovereignty. The sovereignty’s frequent appearances caused’excessive controversy’.
Kt coach Lee Kang-cheol said, “I’ve had a hard time, so I’ll try to get the title as much as possible.”
It meant that he wanted to give the sovereign the title of King Hold as a minimum compensation. As expected, sovereignty took over as the first hold king of kt.
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The sovereign’s ’77 matches’ appearance and the’hold king’ title are symbols of hardship. It contains more than just numbers.
The kt club also reflected some of the symbolic parts in the salary.
It is explained that the annual salary is not unconditionally determined by quantitative evaluation such as data, but 10% reflects qualitative evaluation such as personality, fan service, and leadership.
Equity and fairness also need to be considered.
kt uses a sophisticated annual salary evaluation system to set the players’ salaries, and argues that other players may feel unfair if they set a salary that deviates from this system only to the sovereign.
Sovereignty and kt are required to submit data on the basis for calculating their desired annual salary to KBO by 6 pm on the 18th. The KBO Mediation Committee must complete mediation by the 25th.
kt has extensive data and unified system related to annual salary. It is relatively easy to provide evidence of calculation.
Sovereignty must prove itself worthwhile. Although there may be support from agents, it is not easy to present a basis for breaking the existing framework.
Nine years ago, Lee Dae-hyung eventually canceled the salary adjustment.
The last player to receive a salary adjustment was Dae-ho Lee (Lotte Giants) in 2011. Lee Dae-ho did not get the desired result.
At the time, KBO said, “All the coordinators agreed that Lee Dae-ho himself claimed that it was worth more than 700 million won, but when considering Lee Dae-ho’s performance and equity with other players in the club, the proposed amount (630 million won) I decided that this was appropriate,” he raised the team’s hand.
Apart from the results of the KBO’s annual salary adjustment, sovereignty is expected to create a kind of’butterfly effect’ with this number of matches.
Kt General Manager Lee Sung-yong applied the same salary system to all players since its foundation, but said on the 12th that “I will review ways to change the evaluation of intermediate pitchers after this season, although only the salary of the sovereignty cannot be determined by other standards.
The kt club understood the sovereign’s request for an annual salary adjustment as a message asking’Please further acknowledge the contribution of the bullpen pitcher’, and decided to find an improvement plan.
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2021/01/12 11:57 sent