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A left-handed pitcher in the first round, a pitcher who suffered ups and downs due to injury after his professional debut. The NC Dinos' painful finger, who returned from his mandatory military service, looks at Koo Chang-mo (29), who has a lot of similarities to him, and has a different ambition.
Jung Koo-beom (26) met with reporters ahead of NC's departure from the first spring camp in Arizona, the U.S., through Incheon International Airport on the 24th, and said, "It's my second off-season training, but I think it's very different from then," adding, "I've been to the military and haven't shown anything yet." "I have a different mindset because I have to work hard so that I can get as much opportunity as I care," he said.
Jung Koo-beom, who went through Deoksu High School, was a highly anticipated pitcher who wore an NC uniform as the No. 1 overall pick in the second round of the 2020 rookie draft.
The problem was injury. It reminded me of Koo Chang-mo. For three years since joining the team, he has not been able to properly spray the ball due to shoulder pain. He was included in the spring camp list for the first time ahead of the 2023 season, but only played four games, and after finishing with a disappointing performance, he joined the military as an active duty soldier in February of the following year.
Jung was deployed to the Joint Security Area Game Battalion (JSA), which is also famous for its movies. JSA service is of sufficient public interest in a situation where few players are active in resolving military service obligations. Jeong Gu-beom, who said that he worked in the Panmunjom conference room when he went out of the operation, said that he actually encountered the movie only after joining the military.
I certainly didn't have enough time to train, but I got some. "I'm not good enough in baseball, but I tried to find what I could do in it as much as I could," he said, adding that he came out with an increase of 6,7kg compared to before joining the military, indicating that he would gain about 3kg more even after going to the camp to make 85kg before entering the season.
"When I played in the second division, my skills dropped a lot in the summer and I kept losing weight as it got hot," he said. "I think it would be better to lose weight than I thought, so I think I should continue to work out and eat hard even when I go to spring camp."
I became more desperate for baseball after serving in the military where I couldn't let go of the tension. "There were minor injuries before going to the military, so I thought it would be better for baseball to quickly solve the military problem," he said. "Rather than organizing my thoughts in the military, I've been away from baseball for a long time and doing something different, so I've missed and been desperate for baseball."
Coach Lee Ho-joon, who left for the camp site first, picked Jung Koo-beom as one of the five starting candidates. He is still a player with high expectations. The key is physical condition. "I thought too much about the injury, I was stressed out, and I talked a lot with my trainers," said Jung Gu-beom. "When I first came to the professional league, my body was very small and weak, so I tried to supplement it a lot so that I could be a body worthy of a professional." I think I still think I'm not good enough and I think I should pay more attention to making such a body," he said.
Koo Chang-mo, a pitcher with many similarities and his role model, is the closest teacher. Koo Chang-mo said, "I worked out with Koo Bum while preparing for this season, and I have nothing to say because he's similar to me, but as a senior I've experienced a little more, I eat a lot and I'm not good at injuries, but I told him that it would be good to manage it in advance when I think (the injury) will come. Koo Beom is a junior whom he is attached to. I'm trying to take good care of him in this camp," he said.
Jung Gu-beom also said, "After the end of the camp, he told me to learn a lot of things I can learn from exercising with Chang-mo," adding, "It helped me a lot while working out with Chang-mo in winter, and I think he's very interested."
He will leave the country with extraordinary determination. Jung Koo-beom said, "Since it hasn't always gone as planned, this year's goal is to find the beginning with the feeling of holding a showcase every day and always show it 100%."
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