“Second place was painful for me, even for myself.”

Kim Kyung-moon (64), the new head coach of the Hanwha Eagles, said his first words were about his painful “past.

Hanwha held a press conference and inauguration ceremony for Kim Kyung-moon as its 14th head coach at Hanwha Life Eagles Park in Daejeon on Wednesday.

Hanwha announced Kim’s appointment a day earlier, after the game against Samsung in Daegu. The contract is worth a total of 2 billion won (500 million won in signing fee and 1.5 billion won in annual salary) for three years.

Kim Kyung-moon is a veteran manager with a career record of 896 wins, 774 losses, and 30 draws (0.537 winning percentage) in 1700 games. He quickly surpassed KT’s Lee Kang-cheol to become the most experienced manager of 10 clubs.

Kim’s career is a sure thing. 안전놀이터 Kim’s 896 wins rank sixth on the all-time wins list behind Kim Eung-yong (1,554), Kim Sung-geun (1,388), Kim In-sung (978), Kim Jae-bak (936), and Kang Byung-cheol (914).

He was the head coach of the Doosan Bears from 2004 to 2011, and then led the “upstart” NC Dinos from 2012 to 2018.

In his eight seasons with Doosan,

He led the team to the postseason six times, reaching the Korean Series three times. In NC, he led the team to the Fall League four times, including two regular-season runner-up finishes.

In 2008, he was the head coach of the Beijing Olympic baseball team, which won the gold medal in a best-of-nine series.

Despite his reputation as the right man for both ‘performance’ and ‘development,’ Kim has ‘painful memories’. In his four previous trips to the Korean Series, he finished as runner-up. The tag of “second best in 10,000 years” followed him like a tag.

In June 2018, Kim stepped down as NC manager and returned to the field after nearly six years. “I had a lot of thoughts while I was away from the field. Kim didn’t think I did well. I remembered what I was disappointed about. It was painful for me to finish second,” he said, emphasizing that he wants to win a championship with the Hanwha Eagles and the fans.

Hanwha hasn’t won a championship since 1999.

Since 2008, they have only made the postseason once. After a historic start to the year with an 8-2 record in its first 10 games, the team is currently in eighth place in the standings.

While some have called the team a “perennial bottom-feeder,” Kim sees potential for improvement. “We have good young players in the infield, and most importantly, we have good young pitchers. As these players develop, I think they will become stronger and stronger, and I think we should be a team that shows solid baseball to our fans. That’s what we emphasized,” Kim said.

However, for the time being, 카지노사이트 추천 he expects the senior players to play a role. “I think in the future, we will use older players rather than younger players. We don’t have that many regular season games left. I’ll talk to the staff a little more and decide one by one,” Kim said.

Kim emphasized teamwork for the squad. “Baseball is not about one person being good,” Kim said. It requires teamwork. When the team is in trouble, I told them to come together and play one game at a time, rather than focusing on one person’s mind,” Kim said.

Kim has been called “Ttukshim Baseball” because he shows full trust in the players he starts to believe in.

Hanwha plans to continue with similar colors. “That’s not going to change,” Kim said of the ‘Ttukshim Baseball’ story. There are 88 games left. I want to believe in the players. I’m going to give them more chances and wait and believe in them.”

Hanwha also plans to continue playing “running baseball” as it has been practiced in the past. “I heard yesterday that we are last in (success rate). There are many ways to score runs. If you have fast players, the team is strong. I think we need to find players who can steal bases,” Kim said.

The coaching staff is not expected to change much. “This time, the staff was close to the players, and I didn’t want to shake them up as we head into the middle of the season. We will try to finish the rest of the games well by gathering our hearts with the staff,” said Kim.

Kim, who spoke about his dream of winning the title with Hanwha, said he wants to move up one step at a time this season. 파워볼실시간 “We’re at the bottom of the standings right now, and I think our priority this year is to get to 5 percent. We’ll focus on the postseason, and then we’ll think about it when we get better,” Kim said.