An emergency was put on the catchers of the NC Dinos. This is because starting catcher Park Se-hyeok and second catcher Ahn Joong-yeol 먹튀검증 left due to injury. Hyeongjun Kim, who was selected as the catcher for the Hangzhou Asian Games national team, had a heavy burden on his shoulders.

NC changed the first-team entry on the 28th. Ahn Joong-yeol was excluded from the first team entry. Ahn Joong-yeol was replaced due to an injury during the match against Changwon LG on the 27th.

In the 4th inning, Ahn Joong-yeol tried a sacrifice bunt on first and second base. He rolled in front of the third baseman, and it became a double hit leading from third base to first base. An Joong-yeol sprinted all the way to first base after bunting, and in the process he felt thigh pain.

When he was on defense in the 5th inning, he was replaced by Hyungjun Kim. At the time, an NC official said, “Ahn Joong-yeol suffered discomfort in the right adductor muscle during the base run at the end of the 4th inning and was replaced.” In the end, it seems that his residual injury required treatment and rehabilitation for more than 10 days.

On the 14th, NC dropped Park Se-hyuk from the first team entry. The pain in his left wrist was so severe that he needed time to rehabilitate.

Coach Kang In-kwon said about Park Se-hyuk’s physical condition last weekend, “I haven’t been able to do technical training yet. It will take some time before he returns,” he said.

NC sent free agent Yang Eui-ji to Doosan last winter and recruited free agent Park Se-hyuk for up to 4.6 billion won over four years. And when the free agent shortstop signed a four-year, five-billion won contract with Lotte, he nominated Ahn Joong-yeol as a compensation player and brought him.

This season, Park Se-hyeok and Ahn Jung-yeol have been operating the team, but both of them have been dropped from the entry. For the time being, NC has to build a catcher with Park Dae-on and Kim Hyung-joon.

In the 2018 rookie draft, the performance of promising player Kim Hyung-joon, who joined in the 2nd 1st round (9th overall), is noteworthy. Kim Hyung-joon was selected for the Asian Games national team in early June, and he was called up to the first team on the 23rd after playing in the second team all the time.

Kim Hyung-joon underwent surgery for a cruciate ligament tear in his right knee ahead of his discharge from the Sangmu Baseball Team at the end of August last year. Through his rehabilitation, he participated in a second team game in mid-May. At the end of May, I felt bad again, so I took a break for about a month and started playing again in early July.

On the 24th, the first game of the first team of the season, against SSG Incheon, Kim Hyung-joon hit a home run in consecutive hits against foreign pitcher McCarty and kicked off the ceremony hotly. He was replaced on the 26th and 27th in all three consecutive matches with LG.

After the call-up, he is recording a batting average of .429 (3 hits in 7 at-bats), 2 homers, 2 RBIs, 2 runs, and an OPS of 1.786 in 4 games. However, defense, especially the pitcher’s lead, is more important than batting. He couldn’t participate in the spring camp because of his rehabilitation, and after returning from injury, he only played in the second team, so he couldn’t get along with the pitchers in the first team.

On the 24th, starting pitcher Lee Jae-hak, who formed a battery with the 2nd team, played as a substitute in the SSG game on the 24th, and played 5 innings as a catcher against LG on the 27th, when Ahn Jung-yeol was replaced due to an injury.

Manager Kang In-kwon said, “Kim Hyung-joon has never matched with bullpen pitchers, so he communicates a lot with them (through practice).”

Hyungjun Kim has talent. NC nominated him in the second round, and coach Kang In-kwon said, “I have enough qualities as a catcher. He had good abilities from his rookie days. However, due to his injury, he did not play much. He said, “I don’t think there are many players in the KBO league who have the same ability as me.”

It is expected that Kim Hyung-joon will have more opportunities to play due to a series of injuries to the catcher.