Asian Games, Medal Hopeful Park Jeong-ah

Asian Games Medal Hopeful Park Jeong-ah

Kim Yeon-kyung, captain of the Korean women's volleyball team after retiring from the national team, has a bleak medal outlook, but hopes are high on Park Jeong-ah's 'clutch ability' 온라인카지노

Kim Yeon-kyung (35, Heungkuk Life Insurance), who is watching the Hangzhou Asian Games from the broadcaster's seat rather than the court, feels sad remembering the heavy burden carried by Park Jeong-ah (30, Pepper Savings Bank).

Kim Yeon-kyung put down her Taegeuk mark after the Tokyo Olympics in 2021.

The Korean women's volleyball team's captain's armband, which had belonged to Kim Yeon-kyung for a long time, has been worn by Park Jeong-ah since 2022.

After Kim Yeon-kyung's retirement from the national team, Korean women's volleyball fell sharply.

They lost all 12 games in the 2022 International Volleyball Federation (FIVB) Volleyball Nations League (VNL), and suffered the humiliation of losing all 12 games in this year's VNL.

At the Asian Volleyball Championships, they failed to advance to the semifinals for the first time in history and fell to 6th place.

Park Jung-ah, who enjoyed the joy of winning the 2014 Incheon Asian Games and reaching the semifinals of the 2021 Tokyo Olympics as the ‘youngest member of Kim Yeon-kyung and the golden generation’, is enduring pain as the ‘captain of the post-Kim Yeon-kyung era’.

Park Jeong-ah said in an interview last May, "As the seniors who led the national team for a long time retired from the national team, we were unable to show the performance that fans wanted in last year's international competition.

However, the painful experience is also an experience," he said.

"Having gained experience last year, I will be able to show much better performance this year."

Park Jung-ah's wish did not come true in the VNL and Asian Championships.

The Hangzhou Asian Games were held this year in the Korean women's volleyball team.

This is your last chance to restore your honor.

Park Jung-ah serves as the team's focal point both on the court and in the locker room.

Before Kim Yeon-kyung retired from her national team, Park Jeong-ah was paired with Kim Yeon-kyung and took charge of her wing attack.

With the match between Korea and Japan at the Tokyo Olympics tied at 12-14 in the 5th set, Park Jeong-ah used consecutive attacks to make it 14-14 deuce.

Even when the score was down 15-14 due to Japan's mistake, Park Jeong-ah completed a dramatic comeback victory with a successful finishing attack.

At the 2014 Incheon Asian Games, where she won the gold medal, Park Jung-ah had the second largest offensive share after Kim Yeon-kyung.

Among the Korean women's volleyball team that participated in the 2021 Tokyo Olympics, Park Jeong-ah was the fifth youngest.

However, seniors who had been Park Jeong-ah's umbrella, including Kim Yeon-kyung, Kim Su-ji (Heungkuk Life Insurance), and Yang Hyo-jin (Hyundai Engineering & Construction), all left the national team, and even Kim Hee-jin (IBK Industrial Bank of Korea) failed to join the Hangzhou national team due to the aftereffects of an injury.

Now, Park Jeong-ah leads her juniors who have shared her painful experience, and focuses her efforts on the rebound of Korean women's volleyball.

Her nickname for Park Jeong-ah is ‘Clutch Park.’

She soared and scored at key moments in the domestic V-League and international competitions.

She also signed the largest contract ever for a Korean women's professional volleyball player with a three-year contract with Pepper Savings Bank worth a total of 2.325 billion won.

“Everyone trained hard for the Asian Games medal,” Park Jung-ah said.

“We have a great desire to achieve the goal, so if we all work hard together, there will be good results,” she said.

Although she is no longer confident of winning an Asian Games medal, if ‘Clutch Park’ Park Jeong-ah’s decisiveness shines in Hangzhou, Korean women’s volleyball can also reach an inflection point.

MLB.com: “Ryu Hyun-jin Could Sign a Multi-Year Free Agent Contract

MLB.com: “Ryu Hyun-jin Could Sign a Multi-Year Free Agent Contract After the End of the Season.”

After returning from injury, the average ERA was 2.65 in 7 games... 36-year-old Ryu Hyun-jin, who has a good pitching streak without ups and downs and competes with his ball control rather than his pitch, ‘appeals his charm’ to MLB clubs 바카라사이트

Ryu Hyun-jin (36, Toronto Blue Jays)'s return to the KBO League appears to be delayed by several years.

MLB.com, the American professional baseball Major League (MLB) website, predicted on the 8th (Korean time) that Ryu Hyun-jin, who will become a free agent (FA) after the 2023 season, could sign a multi-year contract with an MLB club.

MLB.com highlighted Ryu Hyun-jin in an article titled ‘9 prospective free agents who must finish the 2023 season well.’

The media said, "Generally, it takes a long time for a pitcher who has undergone elbow ligament joint surgery (Tommy John surgery) to get back on track, but Ryu Hyun-jin shows a different side," and "After returning, he pitched 34 innings in 7 starts. “While taking charge, he closed the gap in Toronto’s starting rotation with outstanding ERA of 2.65 and WHIP (on-base percentage allowed per inning) of 1.06.”

He continued, “Although 36-year-old Ryu Hyun-jin will not be able to sign a four-year free agent contract worth $80 million (approximately 106.6 billion won) (signed with Toronto in 2020), if he continues his current form, he can sign a multi-year free agent contract, which seemed unlikely. “We will be able to sign a contract with an MLB club,” he analyzed.

Ryu Hyun-jin returned to the big leagues last month, 14 months after undergoing left elbow ligament fusion surgery in June of last year.

Except for the game against the Cleveland Guardians on the 8th, where he was forced off early due to being hit by a batted ball, he has continued to be in a stable form, taking responsibility for more than 5 innings in all games since his return.

Detailed records are also good.

He has 3 wins, 2 losses, and an average ERA of 2.65, and maintains top records in detailed indicators such as a hitting percentage of 0.219, walks per 9 innings of 2.12, and BABIP (batting average on balls in play) of 0.242.

In fact, not many experts predicted that Ryu Hyun-jin would remain in MLB after the 2023 season.

This is because it was judged that no MLB team would offer a large amount of money to Ryu Hyun-jin, who has a history of surgery and is older.

However, Ryu Hyun-jin returned quickly and immediately showed off his top skills, showing his appeal to MLB teams in need of a starting pitcher.

The reason MLB experts predict a high possibility of Ryu Hyun-jin renewing his contract is not just because of his performance this season.

It also plays a role in the fact that Ryu Hyun-jin is not a fastball pitcher who competes with pitches, but rather a pitcher with ball control who can control opposing hitters with precise ball control.

Usually, fastball pitchers tend to have a decline in performance according to the aging curve (an aging curve in which skills decline with age), but players with good pitch control are less affected by aging problems.

In fact, in terms of pitch alone, Ryu Hyun-jin is at the lowest level in MLB.

His average fastball speed this season is 88.4 miles per hour (about 142.3 km), which is very slow.

According to Baseball Savant, an MLB record statistics site, Ryu Hyun-jin's average fastball velocity this season is only 607th among 618 MLB pitchers who threw more than 100 pitches.

However, Ryu Hyun-jin is continuing his top form with various breaking balls and 'awl control'.

Meanwhile, Ryu Hyun-jin announced that he would finish his career with his former home team, the Hanwha Eagles of the KBO League.

He did not specify when he would return to the Korean stage.