Shin Min-jae (27), the leading player of the LG Twins in the 2023 season, will receive his first annual salary of over 100 million won after 10 years of joining the professional league. According to a Star News report, Shin Min-jae was finally confirmed to sign an annual salary contract worth over 100 million won for the 2024 season. The increase was over 100 percent from last year’s annual salary of 48 million won. Shin, a graduate of Seoheung Elementary School, Dong Incheon Middle School, and Incheon High School, started his professional career by joining the Doosan Bears as a foster player in 2015. He then moved to LG through the second KBO draft in November 2017. 메이저 토토사이트
Shin debuted in the first division in the 2019 season, just four years after joining the team. He played in 81 games that year, playing only 94 at-bats (81 at-bats), and mostly played as pinch runner or major defense in the second half of the game. He stole 10 bases and had no fixed defensive position. He played in both outfield and infield.
In the 2020 season, Shin posted a batting average of 0.308 (7 hits from 26 times at bat) and eight steals in 68 games. However, his chances to play in the 2021 season started to decrease. In the 2021 season, he recorded a batting average of 0.130 (three hits from 23 times at bat) and two steals in 32 games, before playing in only 14 games (three hits from 3 times at bat, two times at bat) in the 2022 season.
For Shin, who was such a late backup, 2023 was a time to turn his life around. His life has completely changed since Yeom Kyung-yeop took the helm ahead of this season. Yeom is a strong coach who scores one point in a tie or tough lead in the second half of a game. To do this, he needs a fast-footed professional runner, and Shin Min-jae took the role in the beginning. Then, he grew and secured the starting second baseman position, and finally won the Korean Series title.
Shin played 122 games and recorded a batting average of 0.277 (78 hits in 282 times at bat), five doubles, two triples, 28 RBIs and 47 runs, 37 steals, 34 strikeouts on 29 walks, a slugging percentage of 0.309 and an on-base percentage of 0.344. Ranked second in the stolen base category, Shin became the first LG player to reach the 30-base mark in 10 years since 2013 (Oh Ji-hwan). Shin received the last ball in the top of the ninth inning of Game 5, which will determine his victory in the 2023 Korean Series. Shin, who appeared magical to LG Twins, will enter the multi-billion-dollar annual salary for the first time in the 2024 season.
