"You worked so hard with your shoulders.""Dun Kwang-hyun's 'eventually' rehabilitation for two weeks → Whether to operate or not will be decided later."

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SSG Landers Captain Kim Kwang-hyun (38) will fly to Japan. The plan is to accelerate the return period through rehabilitation as much as possible because a long-term gap is inevitable if he goes to the operating table.

SSG Landers said on the 8th, "SSG Landers Kim Kwang-hyun's detailed examination confirmed pain due to osteoporosis in the rear part of his left shoulder," adding, "We will conduct a professional rehabilitation program in Japan for about two weeks from the 9th to recover shoulder function and customized rehabilitation."

First of all, if the progress is not significantly improved after rehabilitation, there is a possibility that surgery will be decided.

The additional long-term departure is also a burden to Kim Kwang-hyun, as he is already at the age of trouble and has expressed some regret over the past two seasons amid the aftermath of shoulder pain.

It seems that it will not be easy to cleanse the pain in a short period of time. This is because it is a result of a steady accumulation over a long career. The club explained, "We have confirmed that the osteoporosis behind the left shoulder accumulated by repeated pitches is the cause of pain," adding, "We decided the rehabilitation schedule by considering the player's condition recovery and long-term performance."

Kim Kwang-hyun is one of the legendary pitchers of Korean baseball. He won 180 games (108 losses) in the KBO League and wore five championship rings.

As a member of the national team, he also led the heyday of Korean baseball. In particular, he played as a Japanese killer and helped win the gold medal in all nine games at the 2008 Beijing Olympics and the runner-up at the 2009 World Baseball Classic (WBC).

He entered the Major League Baseball (MLB) in 2020 and won 10 games at the St. Louis Cardinals and 190 wins in total between Korea and the U.S.

Returning to SSG in 2022, he signed a non-FA multi-year contract of 15.1 billion won for four years and took 44 wins in four years, but the last two seasons were disappointing. In particular, last year, the ERA soared to 5.00, with only 144 innings, the fewest since returning to Korea.

The aftermath of shoulder pain had a big impact. Kim Kwang-hyun said earlier, "I suffered too much last year because of my shoulder," adding, "I think it's most important to avoid such injuries this year. Physical condition is the most important and I try not to overdo it. Assuming that he goes all the way to autumn baseball, I think he needs to manage better to stay healthy until the end," he stressed, but he returned home early due to shoulder pain during the spring camp.

Coach Lee Sung-yong was planning to make special use of Kim Kwang-hyun this season. He meant that if he was assigned to the fifth starter and started Tuesday's game, he would give him time to take a break by canceling it once, not twice until Sunday's game.

It meant that "Kim Kwang-hyun has to live for the team to live," and at the same time, when Kim Kwang-hyun took a break, he would give young players a chance to start and catch both management and development.

But even before the start, the plan went awry. Currently, it is unclear whether the operation will be performed or not, so it is impossible to estimate the timing of the return.

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