Yang Hyun-jong, No. 1 in strikeouts. It's very negative, It's going to be hard for pitchers. Park Gun-woo, I would love to have consistency.

One of the topics of this year's Korean professional baseball is the automatic ball determination system ABS.

As the rule of the game is changing, veteran players with decades of experience will also pay close attention to their advantages and disadvantages and prepare for the 2024 season.

Many players who met on the way out of the spring camp on the 30th offered to adapt to the new regulations as a goal of off-season training.

However, there was a temperature difference for each position. Pitchers were worried about the tightening strike zone, while batters expected consistency in judgment.

Yang Hyun-jong KIA Tigers, who struck out 1,947 in his career, expressed a negative view straightforwardly.

Yang Hyun-jong had triple-digit strikeouts for nine consecutive seasons until last year, approaching Song Jin-woo's 2,48 strikeouts, the most ever in the category, by 101.

Of course, the strike zone of the ABS will be smaller than the strike zone we have been playing baseball, Yang said. As a representative of a pitcher, I can't say it, but I have a lot of negative thoughts. It will be hard for a pitcher.

In high school, when ABS artificial intelligence is added, there are more than 20 walks. It's comparable to amateur players, but I think professional players will also suffer a little bit, he said.

Regarding the pitch clock, which will be piloted in the first half of the year, he said, If I throw it to the balance I want, there is a high probability of a strike, but if I am under pressure from time, I wonder if a strike will go in or a powerful ball will go in.

I measured the time by looking at my video, and I was caught by the pitch clock, he said, adding, It's a system for speed-up, but there are questions about whether the game time will be reduced.

LG Twins' native ace Lim Chan-kyu also looked worried about the changing strike zone.

Lim Chan-kyu said, We need to check where he catches the ball well and where he gets a lot of bad hits, and recalled, I threw it when it was introduced to the second team on a trial basis, and in the case of curves, there were times when I gave the ball that I thought was a ball as a strike.

If you draw a trajectory as wide as possible, throw a slow curve ball, or throw a changeup through the back door, there will be a line in the strike zone. It could be a strike even though it is one-bound, he explained.

The batters expressed a positive or neutral position.

Park Kun-woo NC Dinos, the KBO League's No. 1 batting average, welcomed the introduction of ABS.

Park Kun-woo is ranked third 0.326 after Lee Jung-hoo 0.340, who entered the U.S. Major League Baseball MLB, and the late former Samsung Lions second-tier coach Jang Hyo-jo 0.330.

I was so confused because the strike zone was different for each referee. If a strike was given to a ball that was missing one outside, I wished all referees would have given it a strike, Park said.

If the robot umpire's strike zone gives a one-bound ball to a strike, the player just needs to prepare for that, Park said. As long as there is consistency, I think it will be okay. I think it would be great.

Ahn Chi-hong Hanwha Eagles said, I haven't experienced it yet. I think I will get used to it after a few tries, while Hong Chang-ki LG Twins said, I heard that even a ball that a batter can't hit can become a strike if it passes through the zone, but I'm not sure yet.

However, catcher Kim Hyung-joon NC Dinos, who has to count the pitcher's position, predicted, ABS will adapt a little bit, but the pitch clock is under pressure to throw it within time, so it seems important for the pitcher to adapt and overcome it well.

ABS is a system in which a machine called a robot referee judges strikes and balls, and will be applied immediately from the 2024 season.

However, for the soft landing of the system, the left and right standards of the strike zone will be expanded by 2 cm on both sides of the home plate. The upper and lower standards are 56.35% and 27.64% of the height of the batter.

The pitch clock to reduce the game time goes through a pilot operation in the first half of the year. 스포츠토토사이트

When the pitch clock is introduced, the pitcher must throw the ball within 18 seconds if there is no runner on the leakage and within 23 seconds if there is.