Oh Jae-won, who turned the baseball world into a mess. The aftermath was so great, but in the end, the responsibility came to the scene.

When the contract period of "master" Kim Tae-hyung, who led the KBO League to advance to the Korean Series for the first time in seven consecutive years, expired after the 2023 season, Doosan Bears made a big decision to give a new baton to Lee Seung-yeop, who was called the "national hitter." Naturally, tremendous changes have come to the coaching staff, and all foreign players have been replaced, and they have started to hunt two rabbits with reconstruction.스포츠토토

First of all, the outcome of the first season was not bad. Doosan won a whopping 11 consecutive games last year, setting a new record for the most consecutive wins among its teams, recording 74 wins, two draws and 68 losses. At a time when Doosan humiliatingly fell to the ninth place for the first time in the 2022 season, it succeeded in returning to nothing in just one year. If there was a fly in the ointment, it would have ended the postseason schedule in just one game by kneeling down to the NC Dinos in the wild card series.

And Doosan has strengthened its team once again before this season. Manager Lee Seung-yeop looked higher than in the 2023 season by recruiting coach Park Heung-sik, whom he served as a "teacher" when he was an active player. However, Doosan faced various difficulties from the beginning of the season, and the most fatal of them was the "former national team" Oh Jae-won shock. Oh Jae-won, who not only wore three championship rings but also served as a captain, was found to have been prescribed sleeping pills by Doosan's junior teammates.

As many as eight players were involved in Oh Jae-won's substitute prescription. All of these players were threatened by threats and violence from Oh Jae-won's juniors, so they took action despite knowing that the substitute prescription for sleeping pills was wrong. This fact was revealed in April, just after the 2024 season began. At that time, Doosan launched its own full investigation at a time when reports were pouring in on Oh Jae-won's various criminal activities, and confirmed that eight players were involved in the process.

Doosan immediately reported the fact to the KBO Clean Baseball Center, which failed to return to the first-team ground this season. Not only is the drug substitute prescription itself a criminal act, but it was not possible to use these players when the police investigation was not completed. KBO was also unable to take any action, such as imposing disciplinary measures, when the police investigation was not completed, and Doosan took care of the damage.

With a large number of 1.5-grade players leaving the team, Doosan suffered various difficult situations, including large and small injuries to foreign players that it trusted. Despite this, Doosan finished its regular season schedule with 74 wins, two draws and 68 losses and a 0.521 win rate, the same as last year's, and jumped one notch to fourth place from last year due to fierce competition between mid-tier teams. However, the results were not much different from last year's.

Obviously, in the worst case, Doosan took the wild card stage in fourth place, but fell to its knees without using any strength against KT Wiz. During the two games, he failed to score a single point, recording a disgraceful record, and even humiliated the fourth-ranked team not being able to stage the semi-playoff (semi-PO) for the first time since the introduction of the wild card system in 2015. Angered by this, fans remained at Jamsil Stadium after the second wild card game and expressed their anger, shouting, "Lee Seung-yeop, get out."

Coach Lee Seung-yeop failed to mention it directly after the Wild Card Series ended, but admitted that it was affected by Oh Jae-won's shock. "It is heartbreaking to end the season with two losses," the coach said. "Young players are not competing as veteran players such as (Kim) Jae-ho, (Kim) Jae-hwan, (Jeong) Soo-bin and (Heo) Kyung-min. Young players have no choice but to rely on veterans. As a result, the team has become more competitive with their backup players."

While the existing 1.5th-tier players were left due to the Oh Jae-won shock, many players failed to take advantage of the opportunity even though they were able to take the first-tier stage. For example, coach Lee Seung-yeop expressed his intention to give chances to several players over the shortstop position from the beginning of the season, but in the end, no one took over, and "Veteran" Kim Jae-ho played as the main player at the end of the regular season.

Recently, the Seoul Central District Prosecutors' Office (Chief Prosecutor Kim Bo-sung) indicted Oh Jae-won without detention on charges of violating the Narcotics Control Act on the 15th, summarily prosecuting one of eight Doosan players involved in Oh Jae-won and suspending the indictment of seven, providing an opportunity for backup resources to return to the ground in the 2025 season, but Oh Jae-won's aftermath was entirely directed to the site. Doosan decided not to renew contracts with six coaches, including head coach Park Heung-sik and coach Kim Han-soo, on the 19th.

The fact that the player failed to advance above the wild card this year cannot be solely attributed to the aftermath of Oh Jae-won's shock. However, the fact that he failed to hire even eight players throughout the 144 pennant races was clearly fatal.