Batter Abandoned → Pitcher All-In' Is the 19-year-old rookie talent real, he's already banging 148km..."Pitchers start from now on"

Batter Abandoned → Pitcher All-In' Is the 19-year-old rookie talent real, he's already banging 148km..."Pitchers start from now on"

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LG Twins rookie Hyun Jin-hyeon (19) joined the pro baseball league and has given up on batting and is now working as a pitcher. He used to play as a batter more often than a pitcher until high school, but now he is challenging himself as a pitcher by banking on his 150-kilometer fastball on the mound.먹튀검증

Ryu threw his fourth bullpen session at the Scottsdale, Arizona spring camp on Tuesday. He pitched 30 pitches. He threw 26 fastballs, three sliders, and one fork ball. The maximum speed of his fastballs was 148.1 kilometers, and the average speed of his fastballs was 145.2 kilometers.

"It was my fourth bullpen session, and I focused on the control and movement of my fastballs and breaking balls," said Kim Kwang-sam, the pitching coach who watched Ryu's pitching. "I'm proceeding with the pitching by controlling my pitching pace so that I don't overdo it."

After pitching in the bullpen, Yoo Hyun-hyun said, "I have thrown about 30 bullpen pitches so far, and it was my first time to measure the data. I'm following my coach's schedule because I'm afraid I'll throw it over-face to look good when I measure the data, and he told me to prepare while controlling it."

"When pitching, I tend to throw it short like a fielder, so I often lose strength at the end, so I'm trying to throw it better at the end," he added.

He said, "The pitching coach told me that the fastball is good now, but he told me to make it in the camp so much that the opponent didn't know it and that he could do better. So now I'm making a fastball that I can trust myself and compete against anyone unconditionally."

In the 2025 Rookie Draft held in September last year, he was picked by LG in the second round (20th overall). When he was drafted, he was more familiar with batters. He was a senior at Gyeonggi High School and played in 24 games as a batter, recording a batting average of 295 hits (two homers) with 13 RBIs and 20 steals.

As a pitcher who started belatedly, however, he pitched in eight games (nine innings) and recorded one win and one loss with an ERA of 4.00, nine strikeouts and seven earned runs and four earned runs. In high school, the maximum speed of fastballs was 150 kilometers. LG focused on Ryu's ability to throw fastballs rather than hitting, and planned to nurture him as a pitcher in the pro league.

Recalling the time of LG's nomination, Yoo Hyun-hyun said, "I wanted to be selected within the second round, but I was proud and happy to be on a good team called the LG Twins. My parents were originally fans of Doosan, but as soon as I was nominated by LG, I became a fan to the extent that I watched all the LG games."

As a rookie, the fast ball was impressive, and I learned basic skills step by step from the closing camp and participated in the spring camp. "It's still awkward to start the spring camp, but I think the training is conducted partially and systematically because I'm a professional, and the coaches are guiding the training while telling me the direction, so I feel that the details of the training are different, and the coaches in the training part are very careful and very good at managing, so I think I can exercise harder," said Yoo Hyun-hyun.

"I started playing baseball when I was in the second grade of elementary school, and at first, I started as a hobby, and both my brother and father loved baseball so much that we played together on the playground. But my brother asked my parents to play baseball, so I started first, and I didn't intend to play baseball, but I started because I was more and more crazy about baseball," said Yoo Hyun-hyun.

Regarding his strengths as a pitcher, Yoo Hyun-hyun said, "In fact, I can't tell you my strengths as a pitcher because I've rarely been a pitcher. Coaches don't have much experience as pitchers, but I think they thought that way because they have good speed and control every time they throw, and I think they appreciate the possibility of developing if they gain more basic skills and train professionally."

He used to work as both a pitcher and a batter in high school, but has relatively little experience as a pitcher. "I specialized in fielders in high school, and I'm just starting to learn how to become a pitcher, and I'm building up my basic skills by learning how to play baseball," said Yoo Hyun-hyun. "I haven't been a pitcher many times, but I think I threw sliders very well in breaking balls, and I threw them because he taught me changeups in high school, and I learned how to play folk ball in spring camp."

In addition, Yoo Hyun-hyun said, "I think I can concentrate well because I work out in a good environment, and the weather is so nice that it seems to be progressing effectively. The seniors don't have too much trouble, but they did a good job and came to the spring camp, so they learned what to do on their own, learned well, and talked about their attitude as basic juniors, and they are adapting quickly with the help of the seniors."

"Thank you so much for your support already, even though it's still in the beginning, and I want to show good performance to the fans, and I want to be remembered as a franchise player that comes to mind when I think of LG," said Yoo Hyun-hyun.