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“We couldn’t keep our goal of ‘consistently being at the top,’ so this year will be different.”

st place - 5th place - 7th place - 6th place - 9th place - 5th place - 6th place. This is the report card that the KIA Tigers have accepted over the past seven seasons. Everyone's dream of winning the championship came true once, but after that, they stayed in the middle or lower ranks. In 2018 and 2022, when they reached the wild card finals in 5th place, they suffered bitter losses and failed to advance to the semi-playoffs.

While there were players who quietly fulfilled their roles, there were also players who did not live up to expectations. ‘Veteran outfielder’ Choi Hyeong-woo, who showed consistent performance, was closer to the former. Choi Hyung-woo's career records from 2017 to 2023 are 918 games, 3,278 at-bats, 1,014 hits, a batting average of 0.309, 139 home runs, 631 RBIs, and an OPS of 0.913.

Choi Hyeong-woo, who has only played for one team, the Samsung Lions, since his professional debut, signed a four-year contract with KIA for a total of 10 billion won ahead of the 2017 season. KIA, which had not achieved much since winning the Korean Series in 2009, aimed to regain the top spot for the first time in eight years by strengthening its power.

There were continued criticisms of 'overpayment' towards Choi Hyung-woo and KIA, who opened the 'FA 10 billion era', but Choi Hyung-woo proved it with results in just one season. In 2017, he recorded 176 hits in 514 at-bats in 142 games, a batting average of 0.342, 26 home runs, 120 RBIs, and an OPS (on-base percentage + slugging percentage) of 1.026. In the Korean Series against the Doosan Bears that year, he went 4 hits in 17 at-bats with a batting average of 0.235 and 1 RBI, contributing greatly to the team's Korean Series victory. did. KIA’s ‘hot investment’ has borne fruit.

Choi Hyung-woo showed an upward curve in 2018 with 179 hits in 528 at-bats in 143 games, a batting average of 0.339, 25 home runs, 103 RBIs, and an OPS of 0.963, and in 2019 and 2020, he consistently showed himself as the team's key hitter with a batting average of over .300. In 2021, in 104 games, 87 hits in 373 at-bats, with a batting average of 0.233, 12 home runs, 55 RBIs, OPS of 0.729, the following year, in 132 games, 120 hits in 454 at-bats, with a batting average of 0.264, 14 home runs, 71 RBIs, OPS of 0.787 in 132 games, but last year, in 121 games, 431 at-bats, 130 hits, and a batting average of 0.302. 17 home runs, 81 RBI, OPS It succeeded in rebounding to 0.887.

Choi Hyung-woo, whose value was recognized, signed a multi-year contract for a total of 2.2 billion won for 1+1 years ahead of this season, joining hands with KIA once again. KIA general manager Shim Jae-hak said, "Choi Hyung-woo not only had excellent grades, but he also always served as an example to his fellow players as a clubhouse leader, so he tried to treat them with appropriate respect. He will continue to have a positive influence on his fellow players and become a player representing the KBO League. “I look forward to seeing him perform well,” he said.

Choi Hyeong-woo, who is in the midst of a rehabilitation process after being diagnosed with a comminuted fracture of the left clavicle and acromioclavicular joint damage at the end of September last year, said, "I am very grateful to the club. Since I am not a free agent, there is nothing I can do. I signed a one-year contract and will play again next year. “I was thinking that I had to work hard,” he said. “But I am grateful that I was able to sign a contract like this because you paid attention to me first (about the multi-year contract).”

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