The national right-hander ace and the preliminary FA must-win group have left from the start. Doosan Bears faced a major negative factor ahead of the opening with the opening game ahead. Doosan manager Lee Seung-yeop's idea, which aims to at least advance to the Korean Series, is also likely to be greatly damaged. 바카라사이트

KBO officially announced the opening entry of the 2025 Shinhan Sol Bank KBO League on the 21st. Kwak Bin and Hong Gun-hee could not be found in Doosan's opening entry. Doosan included 12 pitchers in the opening entry, including Park Chi-guk, Park Jung-soo, Lee Byung-hun, Jungwoo Kim, Jack Rogue, Choi Joon-ho, Park Shin-ji, Lee Young-ha, Kim Ho-joon, Cole Irvin, Choi Won-jun, and Kim Taek-yeon.

Doosan club said, "Hong Gun-hee complained of pain in his right elbow during pitching training on the 16th and was diagnosed with damage to his right elbow medial ligament. Kwak Bin felt pain in his left side during pitching against the Goyang Heroes in the Futures League on the 19th. As a result of the examination, he was diagnosed with damage to the internal abdominal muscles. Both players are scheduled to be re-examined in early April." 

Kwak Bin took the mound in 30 games (167.2 innings) in the 2024 season and tied for the most wins along with Samsung Lions pitcher Won Tae-in with 15 wins, nine losses, a 4.24 ERA, 154 strikeouts, and 76 walks. Kwak Bin, who has prepared for the team's third-line bar role season in the 2025 season, took the mound twice in exhibition games. Kwak Bin, who recorded one hit (one homer) and one strikeout and one run in one inning against Samsung on the 10th and four hits, three strikeouts and two walks in three innings against KIA on the 13th, started against Goyang in the Futures League on the 19th and recorded 69 pitches, one hit, six strikeouts, and three strikeouts in five innings. 

In 65 games (59.1 innings) in the 2024 season, Hong recorded four wins, three losses, nine saves, 11 holds, 2.73 ERA, 45 strikeouts, and 33 walks. In this exhibition game, he pitched as relief pitcher twice and recorded two hits, one strikeout and no run in two innings. 

Kwak Bin and Hong Geon-hee's departure is a fatal blow to Doosan's mound early in the season. Doosan envisioned a team consisting of five starters: Cole Irvin, Jack Rogue, Kwak Bin, Choi Seung-yong and Kim Yoo-sung. Manager Lee said, "I was confident that Kwak Bin, the ace player of the most wins, would be overwhelmed if he faced off against the third starting pitchers. However, as Kwak Bin is excluded, the weight of the Korean starters will drop considerably.

The plan also needs to be revised to use Choi Won-joon, who was a candidate for the fifth selection, as a must-win group. Due to Kwak's injury departure, chances are high that Choi Won-joon will return to the starting lineup and play the role Kwak will play. 

Hong Geon-hee's injury is also a fatal blow to the bullpen. Manager Lee Seung-yeop expressed his biggest concern over the bullpen session in the process of preparing for the 2025 season. As the younger bullpen session was moving up slowly than expected, he agonized a lot over the composition of the must-win group. He even tried to use Choi Won-joon, a starting member of the team, as a must-winner. 

As for Hong, it is worrisome that his elbow injury is his. Hong has never suffered a serious injury since moving to Doosan. As for elbow injury, if recovery is difficult, he will have to undergo surgery. Both Doosan, which aims to win now this season, and Hong, who can become an FA through opt-out after the end of the season, are serious negative factors. 

At the opening Media Day, Lee once again mentioned his owner's remarks that he was not playing baseball to rank fourth and fifth. Lee, who led his team by ranking fifth and fourth in the regular season for the past two years, once said his team's advance to the Korean Series as his goal for the 2025 season. With the team considered as an underdog, the early rush of the regular season is ultimately important to the team's goal of advancing to the Korean Series. However, he has to face the big unfavorable factors such as Kwak Bin and Hong Geon-hee's departure from the team due to injury. Attention is focusing on whether Lee will be able to come up with a clever idea to overcome the crisis in the early stages of the mound.