Doosan manager Lee Seung-yeop resigns... national batter's futile exit
Doosan manager Lee Seung-yeop resigns... national batter's futile exit
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Doosan Bears manager Lee Seung-yeop (49) voluntarily resigned on the 2nd to take responsibility for poor performance.메이저사이트
"Coach Lee took responsibility for his poor performance this season and made the decision to renew the team's mood," a Doosan official said. "The club accepted the decision after deliberation." Starting from the home game against the KIA Tigers on Thursday, quality control coach Cho Sung-hwan will serve as the acting coach.
Doosan fell to ninth place due to injuries of its key pitchers in the early days of the season and poor performance of its below-expecting foreign players. As of the day, Doosan ranks ninth among the 10 teams with 23 wins, 32 losses and 3 draws (0.418 winning percentage). Analysts say that the team's 1-0 defeat in the last three consecutive games against the Kiwoom Heroes marked the decisive blow.
Lee, who was loved as a "national hitter" when he was a player, took the helm of Doosan from the 2023 season. He immediately took the helm without any experience as a coach or other coach. With a contract period of three years and a total of 1.8 billion won (down payment of 300 million won and an annual salary of 500 million won), it was the largest for a novice head coach.
Taking over the team that finished ninth in 2022, Lee transformed the team from a big guns into a team that uses short strokes and fast feet. He has also made achievements in his own way. Doosan advanced to the wild card game by ranking fifth with 74 wins, 68 losses and two draws during the 2023 regular season. Last year, Doosan also ranked fourth with the same record (74 wins, 68 losses and two draws), and is back in the wild card game. However, the team failed to secure even one win in the postseason for two consecutive seasons. Last season, Doosan lost to KT Wiz in two consecutive games, and suffered the disgrace of being eliminated as the fourth-ranked team fell behind to the fifth-ranked team for the first time since the introduction of the wild card in 2015.
Doosan, which advanced to the Korean Series for seven consecutive seasons from 2015 to 2021 and won three championships (2015, 2016 and 2019), did not have satisfactory performances. "Bears will show strong past performances as a whole this year," Lee said during the opening of the season. Please look forward to Doosan's performance that never gives up. However, a national batter's first experience as a coach ended when he resigned himself without completing his three-year contract.