I've been coaching and grooming, but as a coach...Yang Sang-moon "Anywhere for the development of Korean baseball!"

I've been coaching and grooming, but as a coach...Yang Sang-moon "Anywhere for the development of Korean baseball!"

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"It doesn't matter what I did in the past. I have a role to play for the development of Korean baseball, and it's great."

It has been a series of surprises for the past two years. This is the case with Yang Sang-moon, a 63-year-old former SPOTV commentator.

It was in the winter of 2022. Yang will be appointed as the manager of the Korean women's baseball team. The prestigious leader, who served as the manager of LG and Lotte in the professional baseball league and even the general manager of LG, volunteered to take the helm of the barren women's baseball team.

Even then, Yang had only one mindset. "I can't do anything for the development of Korean baseball."

After learning about the pitiful situation of Korean women's baseball from the Korea Women's Baseball Federation, she coached the women's baseball team with passion for the past year with no pay. Thanks to the leadership of the prestigious team, star coaching staff joined the team and a number of sponsors were added. Players also welcomed Yang's systematic guidance in a professional baseball style.
Together with the women's baseball team, Yang won a bronze medal at the 2023 Women's Baseball Asian Cup held in Hong Kong last summer and won a qualifying ticket for the "2024 Women's Baseball World Cup."

Yang made another surprising move just six months after he resigned as the head coach of the Korean women's baseball team. He joined the Hanwha Eagles in the professional baseball league. He joined the team as a coach, not as a manager or general manager.

Hanwha officially announced on the 5th that it has hired Yang Seung-kwan as a pitching coach along with recruiting Yang Seung-kwan as a head coach, saying, "We changed the coaching staff position as a measure to improve the performance in the second half of the year."

Yang, who is now a coach, told Sports Seoul on the phone right after the announcement, "I saw Hanwha as having endless potential. It is a team that can grow indefinitely."

"I hope Hanwha does well for the development of Korean baseball. Is there anything I can help?" asked Kim Kyung-moon, a close senior Hanwha manager. "Kim asked me if he could help me, let's try it together, and I accepted it with pleasure," Yang said with a smile. 고수익알바

He returned to the field as a coach after serving as a manager and head of the team. Asked if he didn't mind this, he said, "It doesn't matter what I did in the past. For the sake of Korean baseball, I have a role to do for the development of the team (Hanwha), which I thought positively about, so there is nothing like that."

Hanwha has many promising young pitchers. Moon Dong-ju and Kim Seo-hyun, as well as Hwang Joon-seo. Yang will be in charge of raising them well.

"I won't change anything in a hurry," Yang said. "It will be different when I see them outside and in the field. I will take my time to figure out the players slowly while talking with them. I won't be in a hurry to say, 'Do this or that.'"

Finally, Yang said, "I will assist manager Kim Kyung-moon well for Hanwha's rebound in the second half," and vowed, "We will follow Kim's wishes well, set up the pitching staff a little more, and prepare the manager to make it easier for him to manage the pitcher."

The Hanwha Eagles started the season ambitiously, but ended the first half of the season in ninth place in the league. Eventually, Yang Seung-kwan, former NC coach and Yang Sang-moon, who are close to Kim Kyung-moon, will be recruited as coaches to renew the mood of the second half. Will Yang be able to catch both the results and growth while cultivating promising Hanwha pitchers well? "I am a baseball player, and I will run to any place for the development of Korean baseball," Yang said, before starting over again.