"Again," Icheon left, passed the 'real-life center' overseas camp... 41 year old 296G steel king If you don't believe it, who believes it

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LG Twins' dedicated left Kim Jin-sung (41) passed the first-team Arizona spring camp and the Futures team's Taiwan training camp.

The LG club said on the 5th, "We will depart for Taiwan's Jaishi on February 8 for Future's Taiwan training in 2026."

Coach Lee Byung-kyu, nine coaches, two trainers and 31 athletes will participate in the Taiwan off-season training, which will begin on February 9. According to the LG club, each player will be intensively trained to increase their skills, strengthen their physical strength, basic skills, and organizational skills in this Future's training camp.

Although promising players are mainly going this year, including rookies, players with first-team experience such as Baek Seung-hyun (31), Lee Sang-young (26), Song Chan-eui (27), and Kim Joo-sung (28) will also participate. This is because it is a real-life camp. Through four practice matches with Taiwanese professional teams, they plan to enhance their sense of practice.

However, Kim Jin-sung will remain in Icheon to prepare for the 2026 season. This is similar to the previous Arizona camp in the U.S., which passed due to fatigue from long-distance travel and difficulties in adapting to the local area.

An LG club official told Star News on the 5th, "Kim Jin-sung will train in Icheon again this time. This camp was organized around players who could continue to throw the ball by training a lot. However, Kim Jin-sung said, "I don't worry too much because he is a good player in Korea who makes his body and prepares well."

Kim Jin-sung proves that his choice was correct with his third year of performance. Kim Jin-sung was released by the NC Dinos after the end of the 2021 season and built a new nest in LG in 2022. Since then, he has played more than 70 innings every season over the past three years, including double-digit holds for four consecutive years, and achieved 20 holds, contributing to two Korean Series wins.

Despite coming to LG at the age of 37, he has played in 296 games over the next four seasons, marking 20 wins, 11 losses, 93 holds, 6 saves, an ERA of 3.17 and 247 strikeouts in 269 ⅓ innings, making him a human victory and a veteran player representing the KBO.

Last year, he also prepared for the season at LG Champions Park in Icheon, Gyeonggi Province. Nevertheless, he had a career-high season with 6 wins, 4 losses, 33 saves and an ERA of 3.44 in 78 regular season games and 63 strikeouts in 70 ⅔ innings. In the Korean Series, he pitched in four out of five games and played with one win, no loss, and two holds with zero ERA, which was affectionately called the "commitment left" by fans.

Based on constant self-management and performance, LG won the honor of its first non-FA multi-year contract on the 22nd of last month. The contract will be worth up to 1.6 billion won (1.35 billion won per year and 250 million won in incentives) for three years from 2026.

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