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Lotte Giants' 2026 spring camp schedule came out. While Victor Reyes from Venezuela joined normally and was included on the list, Kim Won-joong, who is rehabilitating after a car accident last month, was excluded from the starting list for now.
The Lotte club said on the 22nd, "We will start spring camp for a total of 40 days from January 25th to March 5th to prepare for the 2026 season."
A total of 41 players, including 20 pitchers, five catchers, nine infielders and seven outfielders, will participate in this camp. Pitcher Park Jung-min will join the spring camp as a rookie in the 2026 season. Rodriguez, Visley will depart from the region where he is staying on January 25 and Reyes will travel to Taiwan on February 1. Kyoyama, who entered the country on January 15 and is training individually in Sangdong, is scheduled to work with the team for the camp schedule.
Kim Won-joong aims to return to the end of the first camp. According to the Lotte club, Kim Won-joong had a car accident in downtown Gwangju at the end of December last year. A right rib microfracture has been diagnosed and is under outpatient treatment. Fortunately, he did not go to a situation where he needed inpatient treatment, and recently took a profile picture of the 2026 season. Lotte Training Team is known to expect to return in mid-February.
The first training session will focus on strengthening physical strength and technical training at Tainan Asia-Pacific International Baseball Center from Jan. 25 to Feb. 20. During this period, the team plans to boost its sense of practice through two practice matches with the CPBL professional team.
The second training camp will be moved to Miyazaki, Japan, from Feb. 21 to March 5. In this Miyazaki camp, he will participate in the Koochun League for the second consecutive year to check his sense of practice. It will play a total of four games with NPB teams, including Yomiuri, Seibu and Orix, and will have a Guchun League match with its sister club Chiba Lotte on March 1.
From a long-term perspective, Lotte Club is organically operating the finishing camp and spring camp. Interactions with Chiba Lotte are also continuing. Following 2024, Jeon Min-jae and Han Tae-yang participated in the final training for Chiba Lotte in the 2025 season. In addition, a program to strengthen player development was also held prior to the 2026 spring camp.
Meanwhile, Lotte has completed annual salary contracts with 73 people eligible for renewal in the 2026 season.
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