“I think we’ve probably interviewed the most candidates in professional baseball history this time,” the NC Dinos quietly and stealthily. 토토사이트
NC officially announced the appointment of Lee Ho-joon as its fourth coach on the 22nd. It is a three-year maximum of 1.4 billion won. It took about a month from the termination of the contract with manager Kang In-kwon on September 20 to the appointment of a new coach. NC, which finished its regular season schedule under acting coach Gong Pil-sung, was conducting final training at its home stadium, Changwon NC Park, without a first-team head coach.
In fact, the appointment of Lee Ho-joon of NC is not a surprising decision. It can be a natural decision depending on how people view it. Coach Lee Ho-joon had a strong image as the eldest brother with leadership even when he was an active player, and even after retirement, he had the impression that he was a “prepared next coach” as he served as a coach for NC and LG for a long time. He was also picked as a candidate several times by other teams. Yeom Kyung-yeop, who served as a coach and coach at LG, also publicly expressed his willingness to make Lee Ho-joon a few times. He wanted to proactively support his juniors.
In particular, Lee Ho-joon was NC’s captain in the past. The NC Dinosaurs, their last team when they were active, took the center stage of their squad by recruiting a veteran named Lee Ho-joon when they were young. As a result, there were speculations that Lee might someday become NC’s coach.
Therefore, it is doubtful and not possible that the NC Dinosaurs appointed Lee Ho-joon as their next coach from the start of their search for a new coach. The NC Dinosaurs had been screening candidates as quietly as possible.
However, Lim Seon-nam, who had been at the forefront of the process to appoint a manager, strongly denied the rumor. “The situation was not at all appointed. I would say that we met the most candidates and interviewed them in the history of professional baseball. We hoped that rumors would not spread and quietly met so many people,” Lim said. “We know that there have been rumors about Lee Ho-joon from the outside. However, we didn’t make the decision depending on what others said. We met several candidates and decided that Lee Ho-joon was the most qualified candidate among them. We should have thought that Lee Ho-joon was the most likely candidate from the outside, and we should have done the opposite.” Lim flatly denied the rumor.
Through the interview process, I was convinced once again that coach Lee Ho-joon, who knows NC best and has a rich coaching experience, was the best person.
The NC club chose manager Lee Ho-joon as the most suitable person to make the team a consistent strong team, saying, “We are well aware of rapidly changing baseball trends through the data and based on this, we judged him to be the right person to make a long-term strong team.”
What kind of footsteps will “coach Lee Ho-joon” be able to make at the NC Dinos? Already, the team is preparing for the 2025 season. Lee Ho-joon will make his first greeting with club officials at NC Park in Changwon on Monday.
