# Cheon Byeong-hyuk’s Baseball World LG Twins, Dreaming of a Dynasty, What did they Prepare Last Winter?

Failure to reinforce power immediately after winning… Bullpen leaks are the biggest weakness.

LG Twins manager Yeom Kyung-yeop, who won the Korean Series last year for the first time in 29 years, declared several times that he would "build a dynasty" ahead of the opening of this season.

Building a dynasty means reigning as the strongest team in the KBO League for the next few years.

There is no clear definition of ‘dynasty’ in the sports world. **[파워볼](https://www.powerballsite.com)**

There are some opinions that a team must win the championship for at least three consecutive years, but it is recognized only if the league's top performance is achieved over a period of approximately five years.

From this perspective, five teams have established dynasties in the KBO League, now in its 43rd year of existence.

The Haitai Tigers (predecessor of KIA), which reached the top nine times from 1983 to 1997, including winning the Korean Series for four consecutive years from 1986 to 1989, was the first dynasty in the KBO League, although opinions may differ on the period.

The dynasty that followed Haitai is the Hyundai Unicorns, now a memory.

Hyundai disappeared from the KBO League after winning four championships from 1998 to 2004.

After 2000, SK Wyverns (predecessor of SSG Landers), Samsung Lions, and Doosan Bears enjoyed their heyday one after another.

SK participated in the Korean Series for six consecutive years from 2007 to 2012, winning three times and runner-up three times.

Samsung, which immediately took over SK's baton, won the overall championship for four consecutive years from 2011 to 2014, and then advanced to the [Korean Series](https://writeupcafe.com/nba-james-curry-match-up-comedy/) for five consecutive years until 2015.

The next runner after Samsung was Doosan.

Doosan participated in the Korean Series for seven consecutive years from 2015 to 2021, winning three times and finishing second four times.

LG coach Yeom Kyung-yeop dreams of such a glorious dynasty.

However, it seems that LG's team strength this season is not as good as last year.

Last year, LG built a powerful power through two-bats, which is rare in the recent KBO League.

In particular, the formidable batting power without distinction between upper and lower batting lineups and the iron-walled bullpen that ensured the team victory made other teams feel fear.

The problem is that LG Twins did not make any efforts to strengthen its power throughout the winter.

LG only renewed contracts with original free agents (FA) Oh Ji-hwan, Lim Chan-gyu, and Ham Deok-ju, but did not supply power from outside.

Foreign players also seemed satisfied with the signing of Dietrick Enns instead of Adam Plutko.

However, the bullpen, which was LG's greatest strength, is not the same as in previous years.

Go Woo-seok, a special closer who represented the [KBO League](https://casinositewiki.mystrikingly.com/blog/dodgers-defeat-san-diego-and-win-mlb), advanced to the American professional baseball league, and Lee Jeong-yong, who played the role of pitcher between starter and bullpen, enlisted in the military.

In addition, Ham Deok-joo left the team after undergoing elbow surgery, and Choi Dong-hwan was recently removed from the team due to a side injury.

Among them, the core of the bullpen, Ko Woo-seok, Lee Jeong-yong, and Ham Deok-ju, are already scheduled to be excluded from this season's lineup.

Nevertheless, it is at first glance incomprehensible that LG did not secure alternative resources throughout the winter.

They may have judged that they had enough power to win even if they filled the bullpen with the remaining pitchers.

The team's batting lineup, which was the strongest among the 10 clubs, is showing its power again this year, but it is showing little by little ups and downs.

In short, it is clear that LG's power is inferior to last year, when it reigned as the 'absolute leader.'

In fact, LG's heyday was in the 1990s rather than now.

Unfortunately, it is not evaluated as a dynasty, but LG reached the top of the Korean Series twice in 1990 and 1994.

In 1997-1998, he took second place for two consecutive years.

A high-ranking member of the LG club at the time later regretted, "We should have strengthened our strength immediately after winning the championship in 1994, but we were not able to do so."

In the professional sports world, the basis for building a strong team is to reorganize your strength immediately after winning, like ‘whipping a galloping horse’.

However, quite a few teams get caught up in the feeling of winning and make a complacent decision that next year will be just fine, and then fall apart.

Of course, LG is worse than last year, but it still has a high chance of winning this year with its top-tier power.

However, the grand dream of building a [dynasty](https://www.liveinternet.ru/users/casinositewiki/post505132895/) may go to waste due to the somewhat disappointing season preparations last winter.