The players' association's proposal, KBO's response...I hope it's an opportunity to start communication

The players' association's proposal, KBO's response...I hope it's an opportunity to start communication

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A meaningful meeting was held at the Baseball Center in Dogok-dong, Gangnam-gu, Seoul on the 19th. It was Heo Gu-yeon, president of the Korea Baseball Organization (KBO), and Yang Hyeon-jong (KIA Tigers), the 13th president of the Korea Professional Baseball Players Association (KBO), who joined hands to discuss pending issues across the league. Park Geun-chan, secretary-general of the KBO, and Jang Dong-chul, secretary-general of the Players Association, joined the meeting to add weight.스포츠토토

This is not the first time that the president of the KBO and the chairman of the Korea Professional Baseball Association have met. KBO President Jeong Ji-taek and Doosan Bears Chairman Yang Eui-ji also had talks during their term. However, it was difficult to find meaning beyond that. During the term of Kim Hyun-soo (LG Twins), the successor of Yang Eui-ji, the meeting with the president fell through. As Kim Hyun-soo served as the captain of the World Baseball Classic (WBC) national baseball team in 2023, the president tried to arrange a meeting at the level of the Korea Professional Baseball Association, but it did not happen.

As a result of the report, the meeting on the 19th took place when the KBO accepted the players' association's request. After an hour-long meeting, the KBO and the players' association issued press releases, respectively. KBO said, "President Huh Gu-yeon and Chairman Yang Hyun-jong agreed and exchanged various opinions on the importance of close cooperation between KBO and the players' association." The players' association said, "Rather than coming up with a practical solution right now, it is meaningful that the two organizations have become a place to understand and sympathize with each other's situation through communication," adding, "There are some areas where the dissonance that occurs in the league has practical problems, but we judged that there are more things that have been misunderstood and derived from being piled up by old communication." The use of the rather sensitive word "communication" further highlighted the meaning of the meeting.

Recently, the KBO League is facing the wind of change. It has been introducing and applying the automatic ball-strike system for the first time in the world since last season. It is even using pitch clock this season. Since there is a system that is directly linked to the performance every year, the Korea Professional Baseball Organization is highly sensitive. According to their argument, notification, not consultation. Most of the players we met on the spot complained that "the KBO does not reflect our opinions." One of the inherent problems in the era of 10 million spectators was the invisible conflict between the KBO and the Korea Professional Baseball Organization. In that sense, the meeting on the 19th is not small. We hope that the meeting between the KBO president and the president of the Korea Professional Baseball Organization, which was held for the first time in a long time, will serve as an opportunity to open a new chapter in the relationship.