"Is there a possibility that Moon Seung-won will switch back to the starting lineup?" "Maybe he will go back to the starting lineup this year..."."
Starting from the bullpen, starting from the bullpen again and again. It is a tough 2023 season for SSG Landers Moon Seung-won. Will he be able to recover his honor as a starting pitcher.
SSG announced Moon Seung-won as a starter against the Incheon NC Dinos on the 22nd. It's already the second transfer. It is precisely the third time since returning to rehabilitation.
Moon Seung-won, who returned in the second half of last year after a year of rehabilitation after undergoing elbow ligament joint surgery, played the rest of the season as a bullpen due to team circumstances at the time. This is because the back door was unstable because there was no fixed closer. Moon Seung-won also had some ups and downs, but he finished the season as a bullpen pitcher with Noh Kyung-eun and Seo Jin-yong and also won the team's championship.
And while preparing for this season, he returned to the starting lineup. Moon Seung-won decided that it was the most comfortable position and that it was the most appropriate. So he was ready to take the mound as a starting pitcher step by step after the spring camp.
Until the beginning of the season, SSG was rather worried because there were so many starting pitchers. Two foreign pitchers, Kim Kwang-hyun, Moon Seung-won, Park Jong-hoon, Oh Won-seok, and rookie Song Young-jin. Meanwhile, Moon Seung-won's performance was not good. In his first game of the season, he pitched eight scoreless innings, and in the next three games, he lost more than four runs. a situation in which the team has many starting pitchers. On top of that, Moon Seung-won changed his position again because one of the sluggish Moon Seung-won and Park Jong-hoon had to move to the bullpen.
Moon Seung-won's bullpen move was quite successful. He played as a must-win group and kept his back as a member of a solid bullpen. Of course, unlike the beginning of the season, SSG had several variables that made holes in the starting rotation. On the possibility of Moon Seung-won's re-transition to his position every time, head coach Kim Won-hyung said, "I don't think there will be a possibility this year." Moving positions too often can be too much for individual pitchers, and it is also less stable from the perspective of setting up a team.
However, in the end, the scenario in which Moon Seung-won starts again became a reality. Currently, SSG is in serious trouble due to the sluggish starting lineup. Kirk McCarty and Roenis Elias found stability, but Kim Kwang-hyun also threw well and was sluggish in recent games, while domestic starting pitchers such as Park Jong-hoon and Oh Won-seok are less stable. As Park Jong-hoon went down to the second division again, SSG was in a crisis that had to offer alternative starters twice this week alone. In an emergency situation where the team fell to third place after losing consecutive games, Moon Seung-won had no choice but to put up a starting card to stabilize the mound.
Repositioning his position is also a revenge battle for Moon Seung-won. It's time to show that his value as a starting pitcher is strong. 스포츠토토