Doosan's Son Ah-seop starts against SSG as soon as he is traded [the scene of Incheon]

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Son Ah-seop (38) started from the first day of his trade to the Doosan Bears.

Doosan included Son Ah-seop in the starting lineup as the second designated hitter ahead of the away game against SSG Landers at SSG Landers Field in Incheon on the 14th.

It is his first start in this season's first team game. He was excluded from the first-team entry on the 30th after playing one at-bat (a groundout to second base) in the seventh inning of the season opener against the Kiwoom Heroes on March 28, when he was a member of the Hanwha Eagles. He had a batting average of 0.375 (3 hits in 8 at-bats) in three Futures League games.

Earlier in the morning, Doosan announced a trade with pitcher Lee Kyo-hoon (26) for 150 million won in cash after receiving a favor from Hanwha. A Doosan official who met in Incheon said, "We first proposed Son Ah-seop's trade on the 5th, the last day of the Jamsil home opening series."

Right-handed lefty Son Ah-seop, who debuted with the Lotte Giants as the 29th pick in the second round of the 2007 rookie draft, ranks first in the KBO league with 2,618 hits in total. He hit .319 with 182 home runs and 1086 RBIs, and he also hit .288 with one home run, 50 RBIs and 39 runs in 111 games last season.

After the 2017 season, he signed a four-year 9.8 billion won contract with Lotte and four-year 6.4 billion won with the NC Dinos after the end of the 2021 season, respectively, and moved to Hanwha through a trade in July last year. After last year's season, he exercised his free agent (FA) rights again, but only in February this year remained at Hanwha for a year and 100 million won.

The Doosan club said, "We made a trade to strengthen the team's batting lineup. Son Ah-seop is a veteran hitter with one of the best levels of experience in the league, he said, adding, "I understand that his current skills are also competitive enough." "I look forward to Son Ah-seop's role as a clubhouse leader as well as sophistication at bat," he said.

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