[Cheon Byeong-hyuk's Baseball World] Hanwha failed to become a Yashin, a foreign head coach, and even a coach with a Ph.D.
Hanwha, unable to develop many promising players, is it the coach's fault or the front office's fault?
The Hanwha Eagles, famous for their ‘careful fans,’ have become synonymous with the last-place team in the KBO League.
At the beginning of its founding in 1986, it was a strong team called 'Dynamite Batting Line', but over the past 15 years, it has only played fall baseball once in 2018 and finished in last place eight times.
Hanwha, which reached the top of the Korean Series only once in 1999, is the second-longest team without a championship after the Lotte Giants.
Because of this situation, most of the directors who were said to be brave were brought in, but none of them were able to demonstrate their abilities and he resigned in disgrace. 파워볼게임
Coaches Kim In-sik, Kim Eung-yong, and Kim Seong-geun, the so-called 'Three Kims', retired from the KBO League after finishing as Hanwha's head coach.
After the 2020 season ended, the baton was handed over to coach Carlos Subero, the first foreign head coach in the club's history.
However, Coach Subero was also fired in May of last year without being able to help Hanwha rebound.
His successor is Director Choi Won-ho.
Many fans expected that coach Choi Won-ho, who earned a doctorate in exercise mechanics and had experience as an acting coach once, would bring a new wind to Hanwha.
However, Coach Choi, who had a roller coaster ride from surprise 1st to 10th place at the beginning of this season, ended up stepping down before the end of the first half of the season.
The Hanwha team announced that the two men voluntarily resigned, but the general view in the baseball world is that the club president and manager resigning before the end of the first half of the year means they were dismissed by the parent group.
During this process, Director Son Hyuk was left alone to take care of the situation.
Recently, four consecutive coaches at Hanwha, including coach Kim Seong-geun, Han Yong-deok, Subero, and Choi Won-ho, resigned mid-term, and some are pointing out whether the poor performance is solely the responsibility of the coach.
In modern baseball, the role of the front office has long been as big as that of the ground.
In a game, the coach takes the lead, but it is the general manager who gathers the players to play.
Hanwha ranked only '9-10-10-10-9' for the past five years until last year.
Thanks to struggling at the bottom for a long time, we have been able to select the first and second overall prospects in the rookie draft every year, but it has not yet been of much help to the team's strength.
There is a need to consider whether the situation in which ‘young blood’ cannot be transfused is the fault of the coach or the front office, including the general manager.
There is also a fact that must be remembered by Hanwha Eagle, which is holding its coach responsible for its poor performance.
Even in the KBO League, teams that consistently play well without spending a lot of money are teams with a strong front office, and veteran staff, including the general manager, have been constantly rebuilding the team for a long time.
