It’s cheap to be criticized, but isn’t it too much to summon Choo Shin-soo and Ahn Woo-jin?

The Korean baseball team crashed endlessly in Tokyo. With 메이저놀이터 consecutive losses to Australia and Japan, advancing to the quarterfinals of the World Baseball Classic (WBC) is virtually canceled. The result is also the result, but I was not prepared at all from the content of the game. When it was revealed that players who received annual salaries of hundreds of millions of won and billions of won were ‘frogs in the well’, baseball fans are beyond disappointed and angry.

You can of course criticize the coach and the players legitimately. The strategy that failed to go all-in against Australia, the pitcher replacement that was inflexible, and the blind faith in the sluggish major league table setter can be pointed out enough. It is the fate of professional coaches and players to accept those aspects according to the results.

However, I think it would be too cruel to mention Choo Shin-soo and Ahn Woo-jin just because they produced disastrous results. Some media point out that ‘Choo Shin-soo was right’ and ‘Ahn Woo-jin should have been chosen’. It is completely irresponsible to rely on result theory and public opinion.

This time, the national team suffered measles even before departure due to the controversy over Choo Shin-soo and Ahn Woo-jin. He did not select Ahn Woo-jin, who is said to be the best pitcher in the league. It was because of school violence. Choo Shin-soo criticized this. However, Choo Shin-soo was beaten. I can defend Ahn Woo-jin, but I made bad people with manager Lee Kang-cheol and baseball seniors. And he couldn’t even come up with a proper explanation for the controversy over his national team’s ‘eating and running’. Until when, Kwanghyun Kim

At that time, relying on public opinion, Choo Shin-soo was wrong, and An Woo-jin was not elected, but if he said that because the results were not good, Choo Shin-soo was right, would this be a fair criticism? It had already been sorted out at that time. If you expected this to happen, you should have supported Choo Shin-soo more strongly at that time and insisted on the selection of An Woo-jin. At the time, criticizing the two people, but now summoning them again seems like a shallow ploy to increase the number of views of the article. It’s cheap to be scolded for a disappointing match like never before, but the only thing you can do is kill the opponent who is already in a groggy state twice.

Looking into the Tokyo disaster this time, it is not a matter of the presence of Kim Gwang-hyun and Yang Hyeon-jong or the absence of Ahn Woo-jin. It’s just a matter of Korean baseball’s international competitiveness itself. It is important that Korean baseball is regressing rather than developing, while the level of baseball periphery countries has improved over the years. The reality is that Chang-mo Koo, Eui-ri Lee, Yoon-shik Kim, Tae-in Won, Bin Kwak, and Cheol-won Jeong failed to properly throw the ball against Japan as they shouted for a generational change. If Kim Gwang-hyun and Yang Hyeon-jong had a good fight, but the young pitchers had ruined the game, it would be frustrating to think that they would have said ‘Kim Gwang-hyun and Yang Hyeon-jong’. It was just the power and atmosphere that would have been difficult even if Ahn Woo-jin was present.