The first 30 games between 2024 KIA and 2017 KIA are similar with a win rate of 70%
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When asked about the difference between KIA's power and KIA's power of the year in the 2017 season, Kim Sun-bin of the professional baseball KIA answered in an interview with LG on the 28th, when the final game of the Jamsil series was held over the weekend.
Kim Sun-bin won the 2017 season as the mainstay player of Kia. In the same year, he played 134 games as shortstop alone. Kim gave Kia the upper hand in the 2017 season because of its outstanding individual performances. In the same year, Yang Hyun-jong and Hector, a foreign pitcher, were ranked as 20-win pitchers, and seven batters were in the lineup who met the required number of at-bats. The team clearly has resources to trust in pitching and hitting.
However, as Kim Sun-bin's humble answer, the difference in power between KIA in the 2017 season and KIA this year may not be large.
This year, Kia has played 30 games since the opening of the season, ranking first with a winning percentage of 70 percent (21 wins and nine losses). In the 2017 season, Kia also ranked first with a winning percentage of 70 percent (21 wins and nine losses) in 30 games since the opening of the season.
However, the method of reaching the 70 percent winning rate in 30 games was different. While Kia had the power of elite members ahead of them in the 2017 season, this year's KIA is making use of its wider resources in the first 30 games to create an indicator of pitching and hitting.
For example, in the first 30 games of the 2017 season, KIA ranked fifth with a 4.38 team ERA. During the team's first 30 games, Yang Hyun-jong and Hector showed their individual skills to collaborate with 12 wins by winning six consecutive games, but the entire mound was not solid.
This year, Kia ranks second after NC (3.42) with a 3.75 ERA in its first 30 games as of last weekend. While there are no "superstars" like Yang and Hector in the 2017 season, Nail and Crow have won four games apiece, and several "young shoulder" Yoon Young-chul (three wins) and "veteran" Yang Hyeon-jong (two wins) are joining forces. As an indicator of overall strength of the mound, the team's pitching staff is highly competitive this year.
In terms of attack index in the early days of this season, Kia certainly got off to a stronger start this year. In its first 30 games, Kia has a team batting average of 0.298 with a team OPS of 0.829. In the 2017 season, Kia was preparing to increase its pace by posting a team batting average of 0.279 with a team OPS of 0.747.
Again, the key to this seems to be whether KIA, which showed the best performance in its first 30 games despite the absence of its flagship player, will continue to lead its offense and defense index without much change. In fact, 2017 was a representative batting season. In the same year, he recorded a team batting average of 0.839, with a team OPS of 0.302, which was not much different from the average value of the league. In the same year, the batting average of all 10 teams was 0.286, and the overall OPS was 0.791.
Although the trend is shifting from pitching to pitching and hitting batters this season due to increased resistance to official ball, the overall index is not as high as in the 2017 season. As of Tuesday, the overall batting average of the league is 0.274, and the overall OPS is 0.761. The gap between the average value of the league and each indicator of KIA is larger than that of 2017.
The number of pennant races in the 144 games in the KBO League is now only around 20%. It is difficult to predict Kia's strength that will remain in the final leg of this season. However, compared with the first 30 games in the 2017 season, each record shows that the team had a fruitful race. In addition, KIA manager Lee Bum-ho expressed his intention to manage the team by taking into account that the cycle of all the players has risen in the early days of the season. For the summer, the real showdown....
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