All clubs in the KBO League have left for their spring camp. However, there is still someone left alone in the FA market at this point when February began after the Lunar New Year holiday. It is Moon Sung-hyun, an FA pitcher. Moon Sung-hyun has left individual training for Japan and wants to continue his career extension. Moon Sung-hyun, who has no regrets about his first career FA application, vowed to continue waiting for the team that wanted him. 

A total of five players remained in the 2025 free agent market. Starting with Ha Joo-seok (110 million won per year for the Hanwha Eagles), Seo Geon-chang (KIA Tigers 1+1 million won per year), Kim Sung-wook (NC Dinos 2+1 year, 300 million won per year), and Lee Yong-chan (NC 2+1 billion won per year) announced their stay. 먹튀검증

However, news of Moon's contract was not heard even after the Lunar New Year holiday. The Kiwoom Heroes, Moon's original team, reportedly do not have the will to set up a negotiation table with Moon immediately. "There has been no single negotiation with Moon so far. There has been no conversation," a Kiwoom official said. 

Moon, a right-hander born in 1991, joined the team as the 31st overall pick in the fourth round of his rookie year in 2010. Moon spent his career high season pitching in 45 games (41.5 innings) in the 2022 season with one loss, 13 saves, 9 holds, and an ERA of 3.27 32 strikeouts.

Since then, Moon has faltered since then, with 32 appearances in the 2023 season, with two wins and two losses and two holds for an ERA of 4.45 with 21 strikeouts and 20 walks. In 42 appearances (38.1 innings) in the 2024 season, Moon has recorded one win, two losses and three saves with an ERA of 6.57 with 31 strikeouts and 25 walks. Although his performance in the 2024 season was not good, Moon applied for his first career FA qualification as a C grade. Clubs that want to recruit Moon from outside must pay 112.5 million won (150 percent) in compensation, which is 150 percent of the previous year. 

Although Moon has been invincible for a long time, he has not neglected his off-season training. While Moon has been improving his physical condition at domestic training centers, he has even completed pitching training. Although he could not find a destination until January, Moon plans to gradually increase his pitching pace by leaving his personal training camp at a Japanese training center in February. 

"I continued to undergo weight training and pitching training during the off-season. It was my first time to train alone without my team, which made me even more desperate," Moon said in an interview with Expots News on Sunday. "I'm going to prepare for the upcoming season by thinking positively as possible," Moon said. "I'm going to go to Japan soon and try to get myself in a warmer place. Whether it's February or March or April, even if a club that I want suddenly appear, I think I should be in good shape. Whenever I join the team, I will prepare well so that I can throw the ball 100 percent." 

Moon applied for his first career FA qualification with a somewhat sluggish performance in the 2024 season. In response, he had to endure some negative external gaze. However, Moon emphasized that he does not regret applying for FA qualification. 

"As a professional player, it is really not easy to fill the FA qualification," Moon said. "As a professional player, I wanted to be the only player who has the right to apply for the FA qualification. Of course, I will take the responsibility for responding to the FA market's response because my performance was not good last year," Moon said. "The fact that I have never negotiated with Kiwoom, an elementary speed team, is a situation I have to accept because my performance was bad. However, I am not regretting my FA qualification. I will try to be as positive as possible and wait for the team that wants me." 

Since there is no problem with his current physical condition, Moon Sung-hyun is determined to make a career high season again, which he was good at in the 2022 season. If the team has a variable in the bullpen in the preparation of the season in the bullpen pitcher season, which can change its performance significantly every year, it seems that they can be interested in Moon Sung-hyun, who has a possibility of rebounding.

"Last year's performance was not good, but I wasn't sick anywhere," Moon said. "I'm confident that I can throw a good ball back in the 2022 season. As a bullpen pitcher, I think I can provide an opportunity to rebound right away this year and help teams that need to strengthen their bullpens," Moon said. "The bad times have continued since last year, but I will think positively that only things will get better from now on. I will do my best to train and keep waiting for your contact."