Correspondent Kim Tae-jong and Reporter Han Nam-jik = Lee Jeong-hoo (25, San Francisco Giants) and Kim Ha-seong (28, San Diego Padres), close seniors and juniors who played together in the Korean Professional Baseball League of Heroes, are in the Major League (28, San Diego Padres). The strange relationship continues in MLB.Coach Bob Melvin (62), who took the helm of San Diego in 2022 and 2023 and brought in Kim Ha-seong, will lead San Francisco in Lee Jung-hoo’s first season in the big league.At the San Francisco press conference where Lee Jung-hoo took his first steps as a big leaguer, many questions were asked about Kim Ha-seong.At a press conference held at Oracle Park in San Francisco, California on the 15th (local time), Lee Jung-hoo said, “Ha-sung played as a teammate in Korea and was a spiritual supporter for me,” and added, “I am on a different team than Ha-sung. It’s amazing and exciting to be competing against each other. My brother always says nice things. He said, “I plan to ask a lot of questions in the United States as well.”

He said, “After signing with San Francisco, I was congratulated by Ha-seong,” and, “Ha-seong said, ‘Congratulations on playing baseball under a good manager.’”Lee Jeong-hoo signed a six-year contract with San Francisco worth a total of $113 million (about 146.2 billion won).Following Kim Ha-seong’s advice, a clause allowing opt-out (contract termination by agreement between the club and the player) was also included after the end of the 2027 season. San Francisco and San Diego were in the National League (NL) West Division.Teams in the NL West will face each other 13 times in the 2024 season.San Francisco and San Diego will face off in the opening game on the U.S. mainland.The 2024 MLB official opening game will be held on March 20th and 21st at Gocheok Sky Dome in Seoul, South Korea.San Diego, where Kim Ha-seong belongs, and the Dodgers, who recruited Ohtani, will play the opening game in Seoul.The opening game in the U.S. mainland will be held on March 29th, Korean time, and San Francisco will open the 2024 season with a four-game away game at Petco Park in San Diego from March 29th to April 1st.It is the opening four-game series on the mainland 무료슬롯게임 that has greater meaning for Korean fans.