Once a 15-win starter, 1 billion FA veteran who vowed that "no easy position" will make 11 hits and 9 runs in the second division
Once a 15-win starter, 1 billion FA veteran who vowed that "no easy position" will make 11 hits and 9 runs in the second division
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NC Dinos Lee Yong-chan (36), who signed his second FA contract ahead of this season and declared his transformation from a closer to a starting pitcher, received a disappointing report card in his first appearance in the Futures League.
Lee Yong-chan started against the KIA Tigers in the 2025 Mediheal KBO Futures League at Masan Stadium on the 30th and recorded 11 hits (one homer) and nine runs in three ⅔ innings.
Lee Yong-chan, who was doubled by leadoff hitter Choi Jung-yong in the top of the first inning, allowed the first run by giving up a sacrifice hit to the next batter, Jung Hae-won, and Oh Sun-woo's at-bat.
Lee Yong-chan, who passed the second inning with three outs, gave up four hits, a walk and a wild pitch as soon as the third inning began, giving up three runs in a row. He took a breather by catching the next batter, Yoon Do-hyun, with a fly ball, but he allowed Ye Jin-won to make an additional timely hit and allowed three more hits even after striking out Kim Ho-ryeong, allowing seven runs in the third inning alone.
Lee Yong-chan, who also took the mound in the top of the fourth inning and hit a solo home run by leadoff hitter Oh Sun-woo, grounded out follow-up hitter Lee Young-jae and struck out Yoon Do-hyun before handing over the mound to Kim Tae-hyun. However, the score widened to 2-11, as Kim Tae-hyun, who came up without a two-out runner, allowed a hit to Ye Jin-won and a two-run shot to Kim Ho-ryeong.
The NC Dinosaurs immediately chased after the next inning. Kim Se-hoon and Shin Yong-seok made consecutive hits against Kim Tae-hyung, the opposing starter, to create chances for the first and third bases, and Kim Han-byeol called in a runner on the third base with a ground ball to pull the reins of the chase. Ko Seung-wan's infield hit against the changed pitcher Kim Dae-yu continued the chance, and Park Han-yeol's fly ball made an error and scored an additional point. Oh Young-soo's two-run timely hit and Song Seung-hwan's two-run homerun hit the ball to lead the score to 8-11.온라인카지노
Both teams, who quietly passed the fifth inning, began to exchange slugging matches again in the sixth inning, and KIA won 16-15 after a bloody battle with a combined 34 hits and 14 walks.
Lee Yong-chan, who joined NC by signing his first FA contract at the beginning of the 2021 season, has been the team's closing player until last year. However, he fell into a slump after suffering a sharp decline in ball power in the second half of the season, and eventually gave up a finishing position to Kim Jae-yeol at the end of the season.
And Lee Yong-chan, who signed a contract with NC for "2+1 year maximum of 1 billion won" in January, gave up his finishing position and started to switch to a starting pitcher. He also played an outstanding role as a starting pitcher, recording double-digit wins twice (10 wins in 2012 and 15 wins in 2018) in four seasons (2011, 2012, 2018 and 2019) when he was a Doosan Bears player.
"There are no comfortable positions. Both positions are challenging. I will prepare while tracing back the memories I prepared for the past since I was a starting pitcher in the past," Lee said right after signing the contract with the FA. "My goal this season is to make the top five teams of course. My goal is to play in the rotation well for one year without getting injured as it has been a while since I started again."
However, returning to the mound as a starting pitcher for the first time in about five years was not as easy as it sounds. Lee Yong-chan started the exhibition game against KIA on the 11th and lost eight hits (one homer) and five runs in three ⅔ innings. In addition, his appearance in the first division was postponed further due to a bad hamstring injury during training just before the opening. Meanwhile, he also displayed poor pitching in the Futures game, which is expected to disrupt NC's management of the mound as a starting pitcher for the first division.