Prospects for this year's professional baseball season have already begun. One of the teams with a large deviation is Samsung.안전놀이터

Sports-oriented baseball channel "The Strongest Ballpoint Pen" released a video clip that shows experts' prospects during the Lunar New Year holiday, and KBSN Sports commentator Jang Sung-ho picked Samsung as the No. 1 candidate for the top spot during the regular season. Asked about his rival to Kia, Jang said, "I thought highly of the possibility that Samsung would have the upper hand.

SBS Sports commentator Lee Soon-cheol viewed Samsung as a runner-up. Analysts say that Samsung is the closest team to the team that will compete against Kia, although it has some distance with the defending champion.

Coach Ryu Ji-hyun, who was appointed as the 2026 WBC baseball team's head coach, picked LG as a rival to KIA before the appointment of the coach, and commentator Lee Dong-wook of TVing also showed the same view, with the two experts analyzing Samsung to be in the third to fourth place.

Cha Myung-seok, LG's general manager, who has various backgrounds as a commentator and on-site staff, did not prioritize Samsung as a favorite. Cha showed his view to replace KT as one of the so-called "big three" players in this season. "KT is looking good," Cha said.

Experts who value Samsung highly pay attention to the new team's sense of stability. "It seems that we recruited foreign pitcher Furado and added Choi Wontae as a free agent. If the two pitchers are included in the team's roster in terms of face value without injury, they are second to none (to the Kia Tigers)," Jang said.

Lee Soon-cheol, who viewed Samsung as a strong candidate to advance to the Korean Series with KIA, also noted the pitching power centered on the starting lineup. "The team that is most comparable to KIA in terms of offense power alone seems to be LG, but Samsung seems to be better if the pitching power is calculated," Lee said. "The variable is that core bullpen is aging, but there seems to be no big problem in dragging its feet through the regular season." Samsung was a team that gained energy from last year's pro baseball rankings like living creatures. This year, people have different views on Samsung even before the start of the season. What kind of Samsung will Samsung be this year.