Ahn Hyun -min of the power “The first half is 100 points … The rookie of the rookie is 25%”
In the early 2025 season, Song Seung -ki (23, LG Twins) was taking advantage of the rookie king competition. But since May, the board has changed. Ahn Hyun -min (22, KT Whiz) appeared like a wizard and hit a home run. The enormous destructive power from a solid body emerged as a rookie candidate.
Ahn Hyun -min hit 0.356 (216 at -bats 77 hits) and 16 home runs (tied 5th) 53 RBIs (11th) in the first half. After playing two games in April, he went down to Futures (Group 2) and went back to the first group in May and played as a main game. At present, there is no 30 % hitter in Katie who filled the rules. Home runs and RBIs are number one in the team. It is a great filling the vacancy of the injured Kang Baek -ho.
WAR (contribution to victory) is ranked first (4.98). Even if the pitcher combines, Hanwha Eagles Cody Phone (5.06, Sports Two Eye) is the second highest. You can see how great his performance was. Ahn Hyun -min, who met with Hankyoreh in the All -Star Game on the 12th, said, “I ran for a while last year. He hit a home run in his first All -Star Game and received an excellent hitter award.
Ahn Hyun -min wore a wizard uniform in 2022 in the second round of the second round of the rookie draft. Kim Do -young (KIA Tigers), Moon Dong -ju (Hanhwa), and the same team of Park Young -hyun and professional motivation. In Masan High School, he was a catcher, but he changed his position to the outfield after joining the professional. After spending a year in the second group, he joined the military as an active duty, and only 29 at -bats of 16 games played shortly after the discharge. So he is qualified as a rookie king. Ahn Hyun -min said, “I saw the Hangzhou Asian Games before the discharge when I was in the soldier. He made 70-80 foods every day as a cooking disease in the army, but now he laughed. The most confident food was the kind of soup.
Ahn Hyun -min is called ‘Man of Power’. The average distance (130.6m) is the longest of the players who hit more than 10 homers in the first half. It is a weight training that has been steadily doing since high school. “Hit up to 640” (which means that you put up to 640 kg of squats, deadlifts and bench presses). I want to appear in ‘Jim Jong -guk’, which is a singer and entertainment Kim Jong -guk, because of the good weight training. The nickname that fans gave him because of his solid body was Kerla (Katie+Gorilla). Ahn Hyun -min also likes this nickname. So during the all -star bats, he dressed in a gorilla and stood at the plate. MBTI is enfp.
Ahn Hyun -min scored 100 points for the first half. This is because he made a double -digit home run and built -in. Nevertheless, I plan to complement the season after the season because it is somewhat difficult for foreign pitchers. The rookie king’s probability is 25%. This is because there are some competitors such as Song Seung -gi, Bae Chan -seung (Samsung Lions) and Kim Young -woo (LG). Ahn Hyun -min said, “Baseball is so fun this year. When I have a RBI, I want to go to the autumn baseball and feel the same fun.” Ultimately, he dreams of being a “expected player” and “a player with a calculation.” It will be to see if Ahn Hyun -min will be able to hold the 100 -point performance in the second half of the year, followed by Kang Baek -ho (2018) and So -joon (2020).
By Kim Yang -hee, reporter whizzer4@hani.co.kr
