When I think of myself to debut in a first-team game, I’m already excited. If the team wins my first game, it will be the happiest day of my life.” 메이저놀이터

Pitcher Kim Seo-hyun (19), who joined Hanwha with the first overall pick in the 2023 KBO (Korea Baseball Organization) rookie draft, is a newbie who has been out of high school for less than a month, but unlike a rookie, her expression and tone are consistently overflowing with confidence. . Even so, he could not hide his excitement about playing on the professional stage of his dreams. I met him at the Hanwha District 2 Stadium in Seosan, Chungcheongnam-do, who is in the midst of tempering ahead of the season opening in April.

◇”My strength is ‘Steel Mental’… I focus on strengths rather than weaknesses.”

Kim Seo-hyun, who is 188 cm tall, threw a fastball with a maximum speed of 156 km/h during her time in Seoul High School, and was evaluated as having a sense of power that would immediately work in the pros. Excluding the freshman year, when he could not participate in the tournament due to the aftermath of his elbow surgery, he recorded an earned run average of 1.42 (3 wins, 4 losses) in 26 high school tournaments for two years. With 97 strikeouts, he competed for the top pitcher in high school baseball with Shim Jun-seok (19), a graduate of Deoksu High School, who recently signed with the Pittsburgh Pirates.