Among the five players who have not signed a contract for 2024-2025 FA, Lee Yong-chan (36) has an ERA of 3.85 with 64 wins and 69 losses and 173 saves and nine holds in 557 games. In 2018, when he was a member of the Doosan Bears, he won 15 games as a starting pitcher. He made 29 saves in the 2019 season by finishing the game. He is a veteran with abundant experience in both starting and bullpen sessions.

He performed poorly in the FA season. He had three wins, nine losses and 16 saves and two holds and an ERA of 6.13 in 57 games. Having 16 saves and four saves is not a bad result. However, an ERA in the six-point range means that he has lost as many points as possible. In fact, his pace declined significantly from August to September last year. He posted a shocking monthly ERA of 29.08.15.19.안전놀이터

In fact, the pitching was somewhat unstable at the end of the 2023 season. He also had some acrobatic pitching in the postseason. He showed good performance until the middle of the season but faltered at the last minute. There have been talks about many things. Physical fitness issues, the sharpness and disappearance of folk balls, and so on. According to Statistics, Lee Yong-chan's four-seam and folk ball hit rates in the 2024 season were 0.320 and 0.387, respectively.

In general, if the team's performance is not good during the FA season, the team sometimes gives up applying and pursues one year later. However, Lee Yong-chan is also 36 years old, which is not short of age. There is no guarantee that the situation will get better even if the team delays it for one year. The future value of FA is important, and age is what the clubs consider important.

In the end, Lee Yong-chan is not being called by clubs two weeks away from leaving the spring camp. Talk of signing and trading has been raised, but it seems that NC did not prefer it. At this point, Lee Yong-chan seems to be flocking to an increasingly difficult situation.

Cha Woo-chan, who has been successful and failed as an FA, talked about the non-FA contractor through his YouTube channel "Chit Chit Chit Chit" on the 5th. He expressed his regret for Lee Yong-chan. "My performance this year was so bad," he said.

Cha Woo-chan said, "Even if I showed what Lee Yong-chan showed me recently last year, I would have given him everything (paying for him) anywhere, but many things overlapped. Lee Yong-chan is a really good player. I think I'm a little unlucky this year. It's a little bad that I've been doing well and showing poor performance. I think the team's attention has been dampened. I think the difference between the players and the team will be big."

Coach Lee Ho-joon also said, "Lee Yong-chan will no longer be easy to finish, and plans to switch to a starting pitcher. We already met Lee right after the inauguration ceremony last fall and reached such an agreement. However, the situation is that Lee cannot find a team. Eventually, we may have to accept NC's offer to stay.