“Interesting.”
The KBO League FA market was held on the 19th. And for three days from the 20th to the 22nd, four FA decided their destination for the next season. However, the four days from the 23rd to the 26th were ‘silent days’. Not a single word of the contract was heard.
There are still 15 players in the FA market. Oh Ji-hwan signed a six-year, 12.4 billion won non-FA multi-year contract with the LG Twins on January 19 and applied for the FA without reporting it to the KBO, but he will sign a contract of the same size. In fact, there are 14 people in the FA market.
Yang Seok-hwan, the biggest fish, and pitchers Lim Chan-kyu and Ham Deok-ju are the most interesting. It’s a time of intense negotiation under the water. Of course, contracts are not a rush for them. Maybe it’s a matter of life. It is natural to be cautious. It’s still early in the stove league, so both players and the club can afford it.
This FA market is a bullpen market. Bullpens pitchers could be seen disrupting each other’s FA contracts. It was the same in the FA catcher market a year ago. Except for S-class Yang Eui-ji, the rest of the catchers influenced each other. Kim Jae-yoon’s 5.8 billion won could be a real lever. There is no law against a chain shift.
Some sayPoint out that the FA price of the two players is overpay. However, the FA market is not a precise appropriate price calculated in the original salary negotiations, but is literally a stage dominated by the market price. If you don’t overpay, it’s hard to buy the external FA you want. It is natural that the FA, which has a certain level of performance, calls the price high and moves carefully. It should be seen as a time to coordinate naturally.
Some point out that the second draft has just ended, and the reorganization of the power of 10 clubs could affect the flow of the FA market. On the one hand, unlike the past year or two, there is no S-class FA to sign a contract worth 10 billion won, so clubs are generally cautious.
In the FA market, there is a taste of big fish contracts popping up, but there is also a taste of pecking. The market seems to have stopped, but it is absolutely not. In the end, the big fish are likely to make a decision within this year. December is the watershed.