The first thing to do is to deal with the batter. I want to play the full-time season this year."

Kim Seo-hyun (Hanwha Eagles) has expressed his will to continue playing this season. It has been a long time since he gave up his greed for arrest.스포츠토토

Kim Seo-hyun, a native of Yangyang Middle School and Seoul High School, is a right-handed pitcher whose strength is a fiery fastball. He received so much attention that he was nominated by the Hanwha Eagles as the No. 1 overall pick in 2023.

However, he did not display any significant performance during his debut season. He played in 20 games (22.1 innings), but had one save and an ERA of 7.25. While playing in 22.1 innings, he was unstable enough to throw 30 pitches, which was the cause.

Kim Seo-hyun also suffered from long growth pains early last year. He tried hard, such as changing his pitching form, but rarely established his own. As such, Kim Seo-hyun seemed to become Hanwha's "sick finger."

Fortunately, Kim Seo-hyun also had Kim Kyung-moon, Hanwha manager, and Yang Sang-moon, coach. With the help and support of the two, Kim gradually rebounded, and as a result, he was able to display even better pitching. His performance in the 2024 season was one win, two losses and 10 holds with a 3.76 ERA in 37 appearances (38.1 innings). After the season, he was invited by the Korean national baseball team and played in the 2024 World Baseball Softball Confederation (WBSC) Premier 12.

His status has changed now. He even participated in the 2025 KBO League Media Day held at Lotte Hotel World in Songpa-gu, Seoul on the 20th as a representative player of Hanwha and Chae Eun-seong. "It's my first Media Day. I was a little nervous because I thought I might say something wrong," Kim Seo-hyun said after the event. "I think I thought about it several times before I came here. (Chae Eun-seong) helped me a lot before I came here. He made me relax a lot. He also bought me a hamburger before I did it."

"I got it in the winter sea (because of my brother's pledge of failure last year)," Kim Seo-hyun said during a speech in which he made a pledge to win the title during the event. Our young players also made up their minds. First of all, the first Infinity Pool (a swimming pool in the baseball stadium) has been opened in our new stadium (Daejeon Hanwha Life Ballpark). "If I get to the fall baseball league, I will get it in the Infinity Pool in December with other players if I make it to the top three," Kim said. "The second goal is for Daejeon to be a city of flour including bread and kalguksu. Players in December will make their own kalguksu and invite fans to the baseball stadium to spend the warm winter."

As for the reason for making this pledge, Kim Seo-hyun explained, "I saw seniors get into the sea last year. We thought we should eat hard, too. Finally, Infinite Pool was created in the new stadium. If the seniors fell out badly last year, I thought it would be good to succeed this time and fall in a good mood together, so I decided that."

"I don't care about my speed anymore," he said. "I'm a fast-paced pitcher, but if I'm involved in it, I might not be able to control my speed as I was when I was a rookie. I want to stay away from my speed. The first thing to do is to deal with batters. I want to use more power when dealing with batters."

Kim Seo-hyun, who is already in his third year since debut, has never played a full-time season yet. "I think I am not a must-winner yet. I need to be more helpful to the team and make efforts to help the team win the must-win group and ensure that the team can play in the fall baseball. We need to do well," Kim said. "I don't want more (holds)." I am thinking of playing 10 more than last year. I also want to play from the beginning this year. I have never played a full season yet. I want to play a full-time season this year."

Meanwhile, the Hanwha Eagles will hold the opening game of the 2025 KBO League against the KT Wiz at KT Wiz Park in Suwon on Tuesday. As the starting pitcher, right-hander Cody Ponce will be dispatched as the starting pitcher. Against this backdrop, the KT Corporation has announced left-hander Enmanuel de Heysus.