"How can you steal bases well?"

At the Wakayama Kamitonda Stadium in Japan, where KT Wiz is in the midst of its final training, the voice of "legend" was still a bit unfamiliar to him wearing KT's uniform.메이저사이트

"Son of the Wind" coach Lee Jong-beom left the field for a while after contributing to the overall LG Twins victory last year. This year, Lee spent time with his son Lee Jung-hoo (San Francisco Giants) to adjust to the U.S. stage. However, Lee's main job is baseball. He came all the way to a rural village in Japan at the invitation of senior manager Lee Kang-cheol from the Haitai Tigers and Gwangju Jeil High School.

Lee was hired as a coach for defense on the base and outfield, which had been criticized as KT's weakness. However, he changed his mind at the closing camp. He will be given the task of coaching the fielders in general, which takes care of the entire fielders. This means that he trusted Lee's ability and felt satisfied with the coaching he had watched for about 10 days during the closing training.

Then, what does the coach, who has just started anew as KT coach, have in mind? Why did he decide to wear KT's uniform.

"Suddenly, I got a call from the coach," the coach said at the wrap-up camp in Japan. It must have been four days before the start of KT's wrap-up training. The coach said, "I want to recruit him as a coach," and I asked him to give me three days. We had a family meeting. To be honest, I thought a bit about it. I didn't think about it because it was KT, but everything went my way in the past, but now my son is in the Major League and my wife has to go to the U.S.," he said. "I thought about whether it was right for me to come back to the field because my father's role was not over."

Coach Lee continued, "By the way, I am a person who only played baseball. I am happiest when I am wearing a uniform. I was separated from my family, but my wife said that I am relieved now that I have a stable work life. So I was able to make up my mind. I didn't know when Jung-hoo was playing, but he was bored because he had to rest due to injury, and it was frustrating because I couldn't do anything for him. I thought it would be better to stay away from my son."

Regarding his role at KT, Lee said, "It is not difficult to adapt because I know the manager's personality and have been watching baseball through commentary and coaching. KT is a strong team. It is my role to enhance the players' capabilities within the framework that the coach has established. However, KT has a low defense rate in the outfield. We are giving him a lot of training by emphasizing the basics and focusing on preventing the leading runners from entering the base."

What many people expect from Coach Lee is the base runner. He is the strongest team ever with 84 steals in the 1994 season. KT's team color is slow. There are no players to run in. Even Shim Woo-joon, who was relatively quick, left for the Hanwha Eagles. Lee said, "Like LG Shin Min-jae, one or two players should lead the team as the first runner. KT has no players to do that. First of all, we have to teach them how to run the base according to the opponent's form, habit, and how to deal with situations. Stealing a base does not always happen all of a sudden. Even if you understand it with your head, if you don't believe in it, a player cannot run. This is because your fear is ahead of you. When it comes to running the base, it is urgent to let go of the players' fear."

"A player asked me, 'What do I have to do to be good at stealing?' I think this is a problem for rookie players these days," Lee said. What does this mean.

Lee said, "If you want to be good at baseball, you must have basic skills. It is impossible to succeed in a professional baseball game without mastering those basic skills. However, when you see players these days, they come to the professional league without realizing what they have to learn in elementary, middle and high school. They have to teach them all over again," Lee said. "Batters only talk about the angle of launch. I think that if the angle of launch is high, a home run will come out. You have to talk about the angle of launch while you have basic contact skills, and if you pay attention to the angle of launch, you will never get a long shot. The same goes for stolen bases. It's not always about running fast, but your posture is important even before you start."