"The national team feels good." Ahn Hyun-min operates a large 122m solo shot against Choi Won-tae in his first practice game [Onnason site]

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KBO Rookie of the Year Ahn Hyun-min (23, KT Wiz) hit a large home run from the beginning to announce his good condition.

Ahn Hyun-min started as the second batter and right fielder in his first practice game against the Samsung Lions at Akama Stadium in Onnason, Okinawa Prefecture, Japan on the 20th, sending Choi Won-tae's fifth pitch out of the center fence with one out without a runner in the top of the first inning.

It was a big home run with a distance of 122 meters. Ahn Hyun-min joined Okinawa, Japan, at the KT spring camp in Australia on the 14th and took over the central lineup and outfielder.

Ahn Hyun-min is known as a sweet rain who appeared in the national team, which suffered from the absence of a big gun. After graduating from Masan High School, he joined KT as 38th in the second round of the 2022 KBO Rookie Draft and blossomed last year, his fourth year as a professional.

He became the first player in 13 years in the KBO league to win the Rookie of the Year and the Golden Glove at the same time, with a batting average of 0.334 (132 hits in 395 at-bats) of 22 home runs, 80 RBIs, 72 runs and 7 steals, and a on-base percentage of 0.448 on-base plus 1.018 on-base percentage.

On this day, the national team consisted of Shin Min-jae (second baseman), Ahn Hyun-min (right wing), Kim Do-young (designated hitter), Noh Si-hwan (first baseman), Koo Ja-wook (designated hitter), Park Dong-won (captor), Moon Hyun-bin (left wing), Kim Joo-won (striker) and Park Hae-min (middle fielder). In the third base, where Kim Do-young is away, Samsung's Kim Ho-jin will play as a member of the Armed Forces Sports Unit.

Against this, Samsung formed a lineup of Kim Ji-chan (center fielder), Kim Sung-yoon (right wing), Shim Jae-hoon (second baseman), Lewin Diaz (first baseman), Park Se-hyuk (captor), Ryu Ji-hyuk (third baseman), Lee Sung-kyu (designated hitter), Su-ho (left wing), and Yang Woo-hyun (striker). The starting shortstop was changed from Lee Hae-seung to Yang Woo-hyun before the start of the game. The starting pitcher will throw two innings as Choi Won-tae. Yang Chang-seop (2 innings), Lee Seung-min (1 inning), Lee Jae-ik (1 inning) and Bae Chan-seung (1 inning) will take the mound one after another.

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