National hitter-> Failed manager's fall... Lee Seung-yeop left on his own
National hitter-> Failed manager's fall... Lee Seung-yeop left on his own
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Lee Seung-yeop, the "national hitter" who became the head coach of the failed Doosan Bears, decided to voluntarily resign.
Doosan Bears coach Lee Seung-yeop resigned as manager due to his poor performance. "Dusan Bears coach Lee Seung-yeop voluntarily resigned on Wednesday. Lee Seung-yeop announced his intention to resign on the day, and the club accepted it."먹튀검증
Having been dubbed the "national hitter," Lee continued his strides in Korea and Japan by breaking various records during his career as an active player. However, Lee's first act career as a coach, which was expected to be nothing but glory in baseball, ended up in the form of voluntary resignation without completing the last year of his three-year contract.
Coach Lee Seung-yeop made the choice on his own, but the critical reason was that the pressure on his poor performance increased as a result. As Lee was the manager who blamed himself for all the team's problems during his tenure, he eventually replaced the decision to resign.
"We thank manager Lee Seung-yeop for his hard work leading the team for three seasons," a Doosan Bears official said. "Coach Lee Seung-yeop took responsibility for his poor performance this season and made the decision to renew the team's atmosphere. The club accepted it after consideration," he explained.
Lee reportedly visited Doosan's office on Tuesday and met with CEO Ko Young-sup and general manager Kim Tae-ryong one after another, and said, "I will take full responsibility for my poor performance," and expressed his intention to resign voluntarily. As of before the game on Thursday, Doosan is ranked ninth in the league with 23 wins, 3 draws and 32 losses in 58 games this season.
Since the beginning of the season, Doosan has rarely been out of the middle and lower ranks. Notably, Doosan lost to the lowest-ranked Kiwoom Heroes for two consecutive games recently, moving further away from its competitors in fall baseball. With the game gap with the fifth-ranked KT Wiz widened to 6.5 games, Lee, who had tried to complete the entire season and fulfill his responsibilities for advancing to fall baseball and performing his team's performance, has finally decided to resign. And quality control coach Cho Sung-hwan will take over as acting manager from the match against KIA in Jamsil on Tuesday.
There have already been several signs of farewell. According to people familiar with Doosan`s situation, the club already seriously agonized over Lee`s reappointment last year. As a result, the decision was made to keep Lee's term until the end, but the public opinion of the fans was not good throughout his tenure.
In particular, Lee took the helm of Doosan in October 2022 for a total of 1.8 billion won (down payment of 300 million won and annual salary of 500 million won), the largest ever among the first managers, and expectations were higher as he was a former star player who played as the best player in the KBO League and Japanese professional baseball when he was active. When Lee took the helm, he also said he aimed to advance to the Korean Series. However, after entering the postseason for the past two consecutive years in 2023 and 2024, it was the deadliest to kneel down in the wild card game.
In 2023, he lost the first game of the wild-card game against the fourth-ranked NC Dinos after finishing the regular season in fifth place, and in 2024, he was eliminated by the fifth-ranked KT Wiz for two consecutive games. It was the first time in history that the fourth-ranked team in the regular season lost to the fifth-ranked team in the wild-card game and was eliminated. In the end, right after PS in the 24th season ended with elimination, there were protests from fans directly demanding that Lee be replaced.
A baseball official with knowledge of Lee's situation said, "Lee Seung-yup was also well aware of fans' negative public opinions. Rather than making excuses, however, Lee admitted his shortcomings or shortcomings first and tried to make up for his mistakes or shortcomings through better performances in entering the fall baseball league this season. However, he seems to have made the decision without overcoming difficulties early in the season."
In fact, Lee tried to make the crisis a new opportunity and a period of leap and reversal by putting more efforts into it than ever before in preparing for this season. All those resolutions, however, failed to produce results, and criticism grew, and he seems to have finally given up the baton.