Ha is one of the six remaining contractors in the free agent market. Ha has several favorable conditions in the free agent market, but the atmosphere surrounding him remains chilly.바카라사이트

Ha is a right-handed, left-handed shortstop born in 1994. He will turn 31 years old in the 2025 season. He is young enough to play two more times as a free agent depending on his performance he will display in the future. Moreover, a key shortstop in the infield is a valuable position. It is not easy to foster.

Coincidentally, the market situation is the worst for Ha Joo-seok. No club is in desperate need of shortstop.

At this year's Golden Glove Awards, seven clubs produced candidates in the shortstop category.

KIA (Park Chan-ho), SSG (Park Sung-han) and LG (Oh Ji-hwan), who have national shortstop, are not applicable at all. NC and Samsung also don't need Ha Joo-won and Lee Jae-hyun, respectively, because they have grown brilliantly. Just in time, Samsung signed a four-year contract with Ryu Ji-hyuk, an infield utility resource that can also back up shortstop, for a total of 2.6 billion won.

In fact, Hanwha, Ha Joo-seok's former team, brought KT shortstop Shim Woo-joon to the FA. As Hanwha signed Shim Woo-joon for four years and 5 billion won, Ha Joo-seok was put on the back burner. KT is not worried because veteran Kim Sang-soo can play both second and shortstop.

At least, it can be said that the main shortstop, who is certain about Kiwoom, Lotte, and Doosan, is ambiguous.

Once Kiwoom has let a player go, it is not a club that spends a lot of money in the FA market. In fact, Kiwoom recruited Oh Sun-jin, an infield multi-resource that was released by Lotte after the end of this season, and filled the infield.

At Lotte, Park Seung-wook played 833 innings as a shortstop in 2024. Lotte released veteran Oh Sun-jin Lee Hak-joo at the end of the season. Through the trade, Jeon Min-jae, a promising player from Doosan, was brought along and the line was firmly set.

It is true that Doosan needs to reorganize its infield system after Kim Jae-ho retired and Jeon Min-jae was sent to Lotte. However, Doosan also focused on fostering promising players including Park Joon-young and Lee Yoo-chan.

Crucially, the fact that Ha is a B-grade FA is another obstacle. The team that recruited Ha is required to pay 100 percent of the previous year's annual salary to Hanwha and one compensation player in addition to 25 protected players. Regardless of the scale of Ha's contract, the question is whether he should bear this much bleeding.

In addition, Ha is relatively limited in defense. He is a professional shortstop. According to Statistics Korea, Ha has played 794 games as a shortstop, 20 games as a third baseman, three games as a second baseman, three games as a first baseman, and one game as a center fielder.