Overseas Training Begins 52 Days Ahead of the Opening

Overseas Training Begins 52 Days Ahead of the Opening of the Professional Baseball Season… KT 1st Camp in Busan

52 days before the opening of the professional baseball regular season, nine clubs are setting up spring camps overseas.

Only KT Wiz will conduct the first winter training in Gijang, Busan, and the second will be held in Okinawa Prefecture, Japan, focusing on actual training.

First, on the 29th, Doosan Bears and Kiwoom Heroes leave for Sydney, Australia and Arizona, USA, respectively. 온라인카지노사이트

On the 30th, six teams – SSG Landers (Florida, USA), Hanwha Eagles (Melbourne, Australia), Samsung Lions (Okinawa Prefecture), LG Twins/NC Dinos (Arizona), and KIA Tigers (Canberra, Australia) – left the country at once. Incheon Airport is expected to be crowded.

The Lotte Giants move to Guam on the 31st.

Starting from February 1st, when the nominal inactivity period (December to January of the following year) ends, until the regular season opening game on March 23rd, the 10 teams will work hard for 52 days in winter training and exhibition games that will determine this year’s farming season. am.

In the name of self-training, several players from each club have already gone to the United States or Japan to improve their condition in a warm environment.

This year’s regular season was held more than a week earlier than usual.

This is to prepare for the World Baseball Softball Confederation (WBSC) Premier 12 to be held in November and to proactively respond to the rapidly increasing number of rainy weather game cancellations due to climate change.

The seven clubs, who have refined their skills through the first physical and team tactical training, move to Japan and Taiwan to develop their sense of real-life combat.

LG and NC will stay only in the United States and return to Korea in early March, while the three clubs Doosan, KIA, and Hanwha and Lotte will head north to Miyazaki and Okinawa Prefectures in Japan.

Five clubs, Samsung, KT, KIA, Hanwha, and Lotte, test their skills through the ‘Okinawa League’.

SSG (Chiaihyeon) and Kiwoom (Kaohsiung) will establish a second base camp in Taiwan.

Prior to the official opening match of the Major League Baseball (MLB) between the Los Angeles Dodgers and San Diego Padres, which will be held at Gocheok Sky Dome in Seoul on March 20-21, last year’s combined championship team LG and Gocheok Dome’s owner Kiwoom will meet with the Dodgers on March 17-18.

A practice match is held against San Diego.

In addition, the national team (Team Korea), which will be led by a new full-time manager, will also play evaluation games against the Dodgers and San Diego for two days to boost the opening atmosphere.