Samsung's Won Tae-in (24) has been diagnosed with distal injury to his shoulder joint. He cannot play in the remaining games of the Korean Series. He cannot play in the Premier 12 next month. Nonetheless, the starting lineup of the national baseball team has become thinner.안전놀이터

Won took the mound as the starting pitcher for Game 4 of the Korean Series against KIA held in Daegu on Sunday, but had to leave the mound early due to symptoms of shoulder discomfort. He lost control of his ball unexpectedly. He allowed three walks and threw 78 times in the third inning with one out. Initially, the team said it had been replaced to protect the player due to shoulder discomfort. There are no hospital treatment plans, but the result of the physical examination revealed that the right shoulder joint is distal. Watchers say it will take four to six weeks for him to undergo rehabilitation.

Not only his team Samsung, which has been pushed to the brink with one win and three losses in the Korean Series, but also the national team is on alert.

The ace of the Premier 12 national team was Won Tae-in no matter what. He won the most wins with 15 wins (6 losses) in the regular season with Doosan Kwak Bin and ranked first among domestic players with an ERA of 3.66. He threw his ball without shaking in a big game, enough to score five scoreless innings in the first game of the Korean Series on the 19th, his first Korean Series game.

Following last year's WBC, Hangzhou Asian Games, and APBC competitions, Won was selected as a member of the national team in the Seoul Series in the Major League that took place early this year, and pitched to all players. For this reason, Samsung also set up a program to help Won slowly recover his condition. However, the issue of shoulder injury eventually erupted.

There are not many candidates in the national team to fill the vacancy of Won Tae-in. There were not many starting pitching resources since the call-up of the training. Kwak Bin and Choi Seung-yong (Dusan), Ko Young-pyo and Um Sang-baek (KT), Son Joo-young (LG) and Won Tae-in were all there. Won Tae-in was missing here, and Son Joo-young was missing before that. After the playoffs, he was diagnosed with elbow flexor and ileocecal muscle injuries just before the call-up of the national team's training.

It is also difficult to select additional starting resources. Moon Dong-ju (Hanwha), the winning pitcher of the Hangzhou Asian Games finals, finished the regular season in September due to her shoulder injury. Park Se-woong (Lotte), another gold medalist, is required to undergo basic military training during the event. Excluding them, only veterans in their late 30s, including Yang Hyeon-jong (KIA), Ryu Hyun-jin (Hanwha), and Kim Kwang-hyun (SSG), who are currently playing the Korean Series, will remain. It does not fit the stance of the national team undergoing a generational change.

Only nine pitchers passed the regular innings among Korean starters this season. There is only one pitcher per team. Ha Young-min (150.1 innings) of Kiwoom failed to make the roster. In addition to injury issues such as Son Joo-young and Won Tae-in, the problem of poor domestic starters has become more apparent. Even though the number of spectators in professional baseball has reached 10 million, the team still lacks performance and international competitiveness. If the international competition confirms the level of Korean baseball again, there is a possibility that the team will be shunned by fans again.

Starting with a match against Taiwan on March 13, the Korean team will play a preliminary match of Group B with Cuba, Japan, the Dominican Republic and Australia. If the team ranks within the top two among the six countries, it will be able to advance to the Super Round in Japan. There is no opponent team that can guarantee victory, but a series of unfavorable factors are already plaguing the Korean team. It is also difficult to decide the starting pitcher for each game.

The national team will train until July 7, including two warm-up matches against Cuba on May 1 and 2, and depart for Taiwan on May 8.