Professional baseball LG Twins veteran infielder Jung Geun-woo retires.
LG announced today that Jung Geun-woo will retire after finishing 16 years as a player after this season.
As a result, Tae-gyun Kim and Geun-woo Jung ended their active roles in the 1982 professional baseball team.
Lee Dae-ho (Lotte Giants) and Oh Seung-hwan (Samsung Lions), who are the same age, will continue to play active roles next year.
Jeong Geun-woo, who graduated from Korea University and joined SK Wyverns in the second round of the rookie draft in 2005, led the era of SK's dynasty in the late 2000s.
In 2014, he signed with Hanwha Eagles as a free agent (FA), and wore an LG uniform as the 2nd draft in 2020.
Jeong Geun-woo played in 1,747 games in total, batting average of 0.302, hitting 1,877, home runs 121, RBI 722, and stealing 371.
I received all of the Golden Gloves (2006, 2009, 2013) given to the best players by position in the second baseman category.
In addition, he was the top scorer in 2009 and 2016, and he has the most professional baseball record with 16 hits to finish.
He made a big success as a national team, contributing to winning the 2008 Beijing Olympics gold medal, 2009 World Baseball Classic (WBC) runner-up, 2010 Guangzhou Asian Games gold medal, and 2015 World Baseball Softball Federation (WBSC) Premier 12 championship.
Through the club, Jung Geun-woo said, "I'm only looking ahead and running hard, and I'm trying to take a rest for a while and think about the future path." "Thank you for helping the club to finish her career beautifully and thanks to that I think I can retire.” He shared his feelings of designing a new life.
He then said, "I sincerely thank the fans who have always supported and cherished me."
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