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Is it because of Samsung's poor home winning rate

It is advantageous for clubs with many long hitters to use a short ballpark from home plate to fence as their home stadium, and for clubs with good pitching power, a large ballpark is better.

As a result, most clubs match the team's color according to the characteristics of their home stadium and try to recruit players.

Clubs that differ from the composition of the squad and the characteristics of their home stadium sometimes renovate the baseball stadium itself.

Hanwha Eagles, who suffered from weak pitching problems, pushed for the expansion of the outfield fence at the request of newly appointed manager Kim Eung-yong in the winter of 2012.

Lotte Giants also moved the home plate of Sajik Stadium in Busan to the back in December 2021 and raised the 4.8m fence to 6m.

It was a decision made when he couldn't hit home runs well due to his poor slugging power, but rather gave home runs to the opposing team one after another.

Recently, another club has been struggling with the ballpark problem.

It is a Samsung Lions that uses Daegu Samsung Lions Park as its home stadium.

Daegu Samsung Lions Park is a representative hitter-friendly stadium in the KBO League.

Daegu Samsung Lions Park, which has an octagonal structure, is only 107 meters from the home plate to the left and right middle fences where the most home runs are made, making it easy to hit home runs.

Samsung, however, has not taken advantage of its home-field advantage in recent years.

Samsung recruited big guns such as Oh Jae-il and Kim Dong-yeop to increase its long-range power, but they did not play as well as expected, and except for Kim Young-woong this year, there were no notable long hitters.

Samsung has suffered significant losses at home in recent years.

In 2022, the team's batting lineup hit 60 home runs, but dedicated 81 home runs. Last year, it hit 55 home runs and gave up 66.

Samsung grappled with this issue internally.

Last winter, they discussed ways to increase the stadium's outfield fence.

However, the fence construction was not implemented due to octagonal ballpark structure and viewing problems in the stands.

Samsung is struggling at home again this season. Samsung is tying for second with a win rate of 0.565, but it is ranking ninth (9 wins, 13 losses, 0.409) in home game winning rate.

There is a sharp difference from the performance of the visiting game (17 wins, 7 losses, 1 draw rate of 0.708, 1st place).

The difference in win rate between home and away games is due to mound issues. Samsung's ERA in away games is 4.02, and his ERA in home games is 5.34.

Samsung manager Park Jin-man said, "Our pitchers often show some running away from allowing long balls at home."

If the current trend continues, Samsung may push for fence construction again after this season.

"We regret what it would have been like to have changed the ballpark last winter," a Samsung team official said on Tuesday. "Younger long hitters such as Kim Young-woong and Lee Sung-kyu are growing, and pitchers are gaining momentum in their home stadiums. We have room to wait and see."

BY: 토토

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