Professional baseball player Oh Ji-hwan signed a multi-year contract with the LG club for the highest price among all shortstops.
His contract period is 6 years, and the total amount is 12.4 billion won.
This is reporter Kim Tae-wook.
[Reporter]
Last year was Oh Ji-hwan’s year.
He also bagged 25 home runs and 20 stolen bases.
He won his first Golden Glove by joining the 20-20 Club, which symbolizes the Hotajun.
And today, he hit the jackpot of 12.4 billion won in six years.
Oh Ji-hwan, who is 33 years old this year, is more likely to become the main character of LG’s fourth permanent contract with a lifelong contract.
[Oh Ji-hwan / LG]
“I wanted to play for the longest time on one team, and I have always wanted to retire after joining this team. It’s such a good and thankful thing. I think I’ve dreamed of it a lot.”
In the meantime, the only contract worth 10 billion won was a shortstop, but Oh Ji-hwan became the first player. 토토사이트
Recently, there have been many cases of catching players with remaining contracts in advance.
This season alone, including Oh Ji-hwan, NC Gu Chang-mo, and Lotte Park Se-woong are three.
This is a strategy to prevent power outages in advance.
The fact that many free agents transfer to other teams is also affecting.
In this way, a contract worth 34.6 billion won was concluded to catch players with remaining contract terms.
Separately, the total amount of FA contracts is ahead of the 80 billion mark.
The Stove League this winter generated a lot of buzz, reaching over 110 billion won in total, approaching last season, which was the largest ever.
This is Kim Tae-wook from Channel A News.