Again, again, armband. Shoulders that got heavier
Again, again, armband. Shoulders that got heavier
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Lotte's oldest member Jeon Jun-woo (39) also wore the captain's armband in the 2025 season.
Lotte announced Jeon Jun-woo's appointment as captain on the 20th.
Jeon Jun-woo, who started his professional career by joining Lotte in 2008, has established himself as the team's main player and became the captain for the first time in 2021. Jeon, who continued his captaincy in 2022, gave up the position to An Chi-hong for a while in 2023, but returned to the captaincy in 2024. He also took an important role in 2025. Even before the official announcement was made, Jeon knew well that he would be the captain, even saying, "I think I should do it."
Jeon has become the longest-serving Lotte captain in the history of the team. Cho Seong-hwan (current Doosan coach) and Jeon Jun-woo, two of Lotte's captains who have served in the armband for more than three seasons, have beaten Cho as Jeon takes over one more season. Cho used to often say, "The next captain is Jeon Jun-woo," but he kept his name.
Given Lotte's current situation, the team does not have the same sense of captaincy as Jeon. Players who account for most of Lotte's power are young players in their 20s. Yoon Dong-hee, Na Seung-yeop, Ko Seung-min, Hwang Sung-bin, and Son Ho-young, so-called "Yoon Na-go Hwang-son," have now begun to take their seats in the main league.
This season, Jeon's shoulders will become heavier. The team struggled to advance to the autumn baseball league until the end of last year's season and swallowed up its disappointment.토토사이트
Lotte's memories of its most recent fall baseball season remain in 2017. Few players on the team that played semi-playoffs at that time were left. Jeon was one of them. He is also the most experienced player in fall baseball in the team. He played a total of 24 postseason games, including 14 semi-playoffs and 10 playoff games.
It is all the more desperate because he has memories of fall baseball. When his team was on the rise in August last year, Jeon encouraged his juniors and shouted, "I can do it." However, he swallowed his disappointment last year as well.
Having failed to advance to the autumn baseball league for the seventh consecutive year, Lotte is committed to making a leap forward in the 2025 season. Through various practice matches, the team will concentrate on preparing for the upcoming season in its spring camp. In Taiwan, the first team that will take part in its spring camp, the team will play a practice game against the WBC national team. Miyazaki Baseball League in Japan, the second camp site, will participate in the 2025 Koochun Miyazaki Baseball Games League. Four Japanese professional baseball teams, namely Softbank, Seibu, Orix and Chiba Lotte, will participate in the camp, while Lotte and Doosan will compete in the KBO league.
Jeon Jun-woo said, "We will play practice games with the Taiwan national team and the NPB first team, and practice games with good teams are a great motivation for the team," adding, "We will take the lead as a captain and try to help the team advance to the playoffs in the upcoming 2025 season."