Catch Heo Gyeong-min and Jeong Soo-bin with bold investment
Doosan Bears is minimizing bleeding through active investment.
On the 16th, Doosan officially announced an FA contract with Soobin Sue.
In the six-year contract period, the total amount is 5.6 billion won, including a down payment of 1.6 billion won, an annual salary of 3.6 billion won, and an incentive of 400 million won. It is a large contract with a guaranteed amount of KRW 5.2 billion. Sue Bin’s ransom price rose significantly from the beginning of the free agency market as Hanwha Eagles, who desperately wanted him, joined the fight. Doosan decided that Soo-bin was an essential power source, and after promising a large sum of money, it led to the stay.
Earlier, Doosan signed a 7-year contract with Gyeong-min Heo, another infield resource and born in 1990. Including a down payment of 2.5 billion won, 4 years 6.5 billion won and 3 years 2 billion won player options were included.
Before the free agency market opened, the gaze toward Doosan was more worrisome than expected. The prediction that it would be difficult to protect players in the free agency market, which required a large amount of money, was dominant because the parent company’s management difficulties steadily flowed to the sale.
However, Doosan is pressing its core resources with active investment. It is unfortunate that Choi Ju-hwan (SK, 4 years, 4.2 billion won) and Oh Jae-il (Samsung, 4 years, 5 billion won) left, but the remainder of Heo Gyeong-min and Soo-bin Soo-bin is enough to be seen as an unexpected move.
Assuming that Doosan is not interested in external free agents, the remaining task is to renew their contracts with other free agent qualified players Kim Jae-ho, Lee Yong-chan, and Yu Hee-gwan.
Lee Yong-chan has a risk factor that he took a season off due to elbow surgery, and Yu Hee-gwan has won 10 wins for eight consecutive years, but the ball is not as good as in previous years. It is true that the weight of the negotiations is more focused on the club.
The situation is a little different for Kim Jae-ho. Although he is 35 years old, he is still considered the top shortstop in the league. It is close to the championship, but if you are a team with troubles about the position at shortstop, you will be coveted enough.
Doosan is poised to focus on negotiations with the remaining players with a lighter mind after completing the contract with Soo-bin. If you even catch Kim Jae-ho, there would be no big disagreement even if Doosan’s 2020 FA market was a success.
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