“I wanted to show that I can do things other than hitting,”
An unfamiliar position called Quality Control Coach has been created at the defending champion LG Twins. Hitting coach Ho-Jun Lee will take on that position. I made a request directly to coach Yeom Kyung-yeop and the club. What is the background?
According to Coach Lee Ho-jun, the QC coach is a position that looks after all areas, including batting, pitching, base running, and defense.
Although there is a QC coach position in the Major League, it is unfamiliar in the KBO League. So there are more question marks.
It may be a challenge for coach Lee Ho-jun. However, he tries to attack it head on as he directly requested it.
Coach Lee said, “This is what I requested. The manager and general manager readily gave permission, so the decision was made. The reason I left my previous team was because I wanted to stop being a hitting coach. But everyone said that I would only be good as a hitting coach.” At a dinner table in the middle of last season, I jokingly asked the coach, ‘Please make me a strategy coach.’ Then the coach said, ‘You can’t do that.’ He said, ‘I can do it well, too.’ Didn’t I try to be a runner (when I was a player)? “I haven’t tried stealing a base before. I’ve tried everything. Maybe it’s because my legs are a little slow (laughter). I think I was talking really seriously. I guess that’s why I’m so greedy.”
He continued, “I wanted to show that I can do other things too. I’ve had that thought for two years now. If you look at other coaches, they focus on various areas such as strategy, defense, and hitting. I wanted to do the same.”
The QC coach’s work has already begun in earnest from the coaching staff workshop held on the 3rd and 4th.
Coach Lee said, “There was a negative reaction, but please don’t misunderstand. That’s why I told the coaches during the workshop. ‘I’m not saying I’m going to interfere with other parts. I’m not going to give orders or something, but I’m going to do it one step behind the scenes.’ “It means that we will participate together,” he said. “The player will act as a bridge between the coaches. To do that, you need to know the position to some extent. You need to listen to the coaching and learn from the side. I want to start with that. The staff, the staff, and the coach. “The first thing is to act as a bridge between the staff and the players, and then the batting. I will be responsible for 50% of the batting. The focus will be on training the batting,” he explained.
As already known, Coach Lee was known as a candidate for SSG Landers coach during last year’s Korean Series, and was interviewed after the Korean Series ended. He said he felt something during this process.
Coach Lee said, “Everyone knows that I was interviewed as a candidate for a director,” and “I can assure you that only a third of the things I can say with confidence during the interview are. The rest is just listening and preparing before speaking without any experience. “That’s it,” he said emphatically.
He continued, “Then I thought about it. That’s why I thought, ‘Sometimes directors can’t keep their promises.’ When you first become a director, you come out with something grandiose, right? But there are quite a few times when you fail to keep that. It’s because you haven’t had the experience. “You have to do it to convey your words accurately. That’s why I asked for a QC coach,” he said.
Coach Lee said, “I wanted to study both sides. People around me asked, ‘Do you know how to replace a pitcher?’ and ‘Do you know the timing of a replacement?’ But I joined the team as a pitcher (laughter). That way, when I become a manager, I will be able to do it. “I thought that I could become a person who keeps his promises. I also thought that I was completely unprepared for that,” he said.
As coach Lee said, he was a pitcher when he joined the Haitai Tigers in 1994. He only played as a pitcher for the first year of his debut, and a year later he switched to a batsman and made a big splash.
He inevitably has greater responsibility than anyone else this year. Coach Lee Ho-jun said, “I looked into what a QC coach does in the major leagues, and there are many different positions. I’m trying to narrow it down to three. This is a new position that I created at my request. A new coach was also selected because of me. (That’s why) “I will do my best to produce results. I will create LG’s own QC coach so that the QC coach can continue even after me,” he said with a firm determination.
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