"We're at the bottom?" What woke Samsung up? "Wouldn't the players be stimulated?"

"We're at the bottom?" What woke Samsung up? "Wouldn't the players be stimulated?"

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Samsung Lions ranked second in the regular season. The Samsung Lions, which were widely expected to be at the bottom until the season, has come to a turnaround in the 2024 season. Samsung coach Park Jin-man said that this expectation of the lowest rank was a good stimulus to players.먹튀검증

Samsung wrapped up its regular season schedule with a home game against the LG Twins of the 2024 Shinhan Bank SOL Bank KBO League held at Samsung Lions Park in Daegu on Sunday. Its record is 78 wins, 64 losses and two draws in 144 games with a winning rate of 0.549, ranking second in the regular season. Samsung has advanced directly to the playoffs for the first time in three years since the 2021 season.

Until before the season, few expected Samsung to go to the postseason. Samsung, which was ranked eighth last year, scooped up bullpen players through the second draft with free agents last winter, but the prevailing view was that it would not directly affect its performance.

Samsung, however, has turned the tables. With its robust bullpen, the team that ranked first (38th) in last year's come-from-behind loss has transformed into the team that ranks fourth (31st) in come-from-behind loss and No. 1 (40 wins) in come-from-behind victory, while the team has become a team that boasts strong offensive capabilities as players including Young Gun Kim Young-woong, Lee Sung-kyu, and Kim Heon-gon have revived in the lineup. Taking advantage of its home stadium as a batter-friendly stadium, the team has produced four players who recorded 20 or more home runs including Koo Ja-wook (33), Kim Young-woong (28), Park Byung-ho (23), and Lee Sung-kyu (22) and has become the team's No. 1 home run (185) for the first time in nine years since 2015.

Samsung's coach Park Jin-man said, "Players seem to have been stimulated." "We had a lot of evaluations before the season, but we didn't have good expectations," Park said. "Players seem to have been stimulated by such evaluations."

Catcher Kang Min-ho said, "Just because many people rated us as low-ranking, I didn't mean to take revenge on what I expected," but added, "What I felt during my 21-year professional career was that baseball is a battle of the tide. Honestly, our team may be weaker than other teams in terms of power, but it was scary (for me) because we were in the mood. I realized once again that we really don't know about baseball."

In 2021, he failed to challenge for the fall baseball championship in just two games due to his loss in all two games (shortening the postseason due to COVID-19). As he overturned his expectations this year and ranked high in the regular season rankings, he is also determined to achieve a different result than he did three years ago in PS. "Three years ago, we received the PO with the team's atmosphere down due to the loss of the first-place match," manager Park Jin-man said. "Now, the atmosphere and in many ways are better than then, so I look forward to showing a better performance."