“There’s a lot of good players in Korea, a lot of young talent. That’s what motivates me even more to play harder.'
“He made it really easy on me,” saidinfield coach Bobby Dickerson, who filled the same role for the Padres in 2021. “He was bright-eyed and bushy-tailed. He was always listening.”
“But on the other hand,” Kim added, “it was only my first year. So let’s challenge myself and see what happens.” “I became a messenger to the people for a lot of positive,” Park said. “And they were cheering me up, but I had to pitch well to cheer them up, the whole country.” “Obviously, it was overwhelming because I wasn’t really a good player. I was a bench player and a pinch hitter,” Kim said. “Still, the amount of love that I got, I just was thankful to the fans. And that motivates me to pay back our fans by giving 100 percent, by being a hustle player.”
“Korean fans feel a lot closer to them, because you saw their growth and developmental years,” Daniel Kim, the KBO analyst, said.lefty and former KBO star Hyun-Jin Ryu remains the most popular active Korean-born major leaguer, but he pitches roughly once a week, and the excitement sparked by a strikeout cannot match the thrill of a home run or a quick-twitch defensive play. Ha-Seong Kim, this season, has delivered plenty of both.
“There’s a lot of good players in Korea, a lot of young talent,” Kim said. “That’s what motivates me even more to play harder, so that they get more attention from major-league scouts. And then they can start dreaming more about coming over here to play. So that gives me big motivation to play even harder so that you can see a lot of Korean players in the future.”It remains to be seen whether Kim stays an outlier or represents the beginning of a new pipeline.
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