SSG, New Director will Lead a Generational Change

SSG "The New Director will be a Leader who will Lead a Generational Change... Appointment Work Begins Now"

Former coach Won-Hyung Kim, who led last year's combined championship, was suddenly fired with two years left on his contract.

The justification that SSG Landers gave for dismissing the ‘previous season’s overall winning coach’ who had two years left on his contract was ‘generational change’.

At the same time, he emphasized, “The new commander must be a leader who leads change, innovation, and generational change.”

SSG suddenly dismissed former coach Kim Won-hyeong on the 31st and said, "There is no way to terminate the contract due to performance," and added, "After the end of the postseason, we conducted a fierce internal review. 바카라사이트

We believed that change and innovation were necessary for the team to continue to develop.

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General Manager Kim Seong-yong said in a phone call, “Our team is in urgent need of generational change.

“We decided that internal change and innovation were needed,” he said.

“I thought a change in leadership was also necessary, so I made a difficult decision.”

He continued, “I have just decided to terminate my contract with former coach Won-hyung Kim.

He said, “Discussions about the new head coach should start now,” and “We will focus on generational change, select a group of candidates, and begin the process of selecting a head coach.”

Another SSG official protested, saying, "The rumor that 'an unconventional person has been appointed as the new coach' is not true.

Nothing has really been decided."

In fact, ‘performance’ cannot be a reason for former coach Kim Won-hyung’s dismissal.

Former coach Kim Won-hyung, who took command of the team in the 2021 season, failed to advance to the postseason by placing 6th in the first season (2021), but last year achieved the 'Wire-to-Wire Regular Season Championship' by maintaining first place from the opening day of the regular season to the end date.

And they also won the Korean Series, completing the overall championship.

This year, they finished the regular season in 3rd place, lost to the NC Dinos in the semi-PO, and exited the fall stage.

SSG was a team that pursued ‘Win Now’.

Ahead of the opening of the 2023 season, KBO announced the highest average annual salary excluding foreign players and rookies (KRW 175.59 million), and the highest average annual salary of the top 28 players (KRW 309.57 million), which is the standard for first-team entry registration in the regular season. It was SSG.

In addition to Choo Shin-soo and Kim Kang-min, a duo born in 1982 who were in difficult times, players in their mid to late 30s, including Choi Jeong, Kim Gwang-hyun, Noh Kyung-eun, and Ko Hyo-jun, played as key players in the first team.

It was an understandable move for SSG, which had the KBO League's leading pitchers Gwang-Hyun Kim and Jeong Choi, and signed multi-year contracts with Han Yu-Seom, Seung-Won Moon, and Jong-Hoon Park before becoming eligible as free agents (FA).

In fact, former coach Kim Won-hyung promoted a 'natural generational change' by actively hiring new players early this season.

However, juniors who surpassed the ‘older brothers’ did not emerge.

Of the nine fielders in the starting lineup for Game 3 of the semi-playoff match against NC Dinos, which was SSG's last game this year, only one, shortstop Park Seong-han, was in his 20s.

SSG suddenly pressed the 'generational change button', and the first decision was to dismiss the manager.

SSG plans to soon meet with several veteran players to discuss ‘extending active duty’.

Signs of change are also felt in the front configuration.

Some people analyze it as “a process of erasing the color of SK Wyverns.”

Pursuing sudden change, the SSG club did not respect 'politeness'.

SSG, which had an uneven breakup with former general manager Ryu Seon-gyu at the end of last season, also called former manager Kim Won-hyung on the 31st and notified him of his dismissal, ending the 'relationship' in one fell swoop.

Rather, former Coach Kim Won-hyung defended the club, saying, "It's my fault.

I understand the club's decision."