The Lotte Giants of the Korean Baseball Organization (KBO) will entrust acting head coach Lee Jong-woon (57) to manage the team for the remaining 36 games of the season, including a game against the Hanwha Eagles in Daejeon on Sept. 29.Lee Jong-woon led the team on the 17th and 27th, when former manager Larry Sutton (53) was away due to health issues, but it was in the form of an acting head coach.With Sutton’s departure on the 28th, Lotte appointed Lee Jong-woon as “acting head coach” to lead the team for the remaining 36 games.Lee Jong-woon spent one season as the full-time head coach of Lotte’s first team in 2015. Lotte finished eighth with 66 wins, 77 losses, and one draw, and Jong-woon, who had a three-year contract, left the team with two years left on his contract.Lee Jong-woon, who returned to Lotte this year as the second-team coach, returned to the first-team dugout on June 27, when the team was in turmoil. He now leads the team as acting head coach.Lee Jong-woon is the third KBO coach in history to take over as acting head coach for the remainder of the season after the original head coach resigned.Kim Sung-geun led the OB Bears from 1984 to 1988, the Pacific Dolphins from 1989 to 1990, the Samsung Lions from 1991 to 1992, and the Twins Raiders from 1996 to 1999 before becoming acting manager on May 16, 2001, when the LG Twins parted ways with then-manager Lee Kwang-eun.It was the first case of a former first-team manager taking on the role of acting manager.Kim Sung-geun won 49 games, lost 42, tied seven, and had a winning percentage of 0.538 in 2001, and became the official manager of LG in 2002.Woo Yong-duk, who managed Samsung’s first team from 1993-1995, took over as acting head coach when then-Lotte head coach Kim Myung-sung passed away in July 2001, managing the remaining 50 games (27 wins, 22 losses, 1 draw and a winning percentage of 551) before becoming Lotte’s full-time first team coach in 2002.Kim Yong-hee also had experience as a first-team coach and led the team for two games as acting head coach when Woo Yong-duk was fired in June 2002, but it was a “short-term interim job” until Lotte hired Baek Incheon.”I’m really embarrassed, and I think everyone is responsible, from the coaching staff to the players, for (Sutton’s) departure,” said Lee Jong-woon, who became Lotte’s first on-field manager in eight years.Lotte is in seventh place with 28 days to go. They have lost seven straight games.Acting coach Lee Jong-woon could face a tougher 36-game schedule than in 2015, when he led the team as head 카지노사이트 coach.
