The composition of the coaching staff to work with Lotte Giants coach Kim Tae-hyung is progressing smoothly. Several baseball players made decisions at the call of manager Kim Tae-hyung. It is expected that the final positions for the 1st and 2nd team coaches for the 2024 season will be confirmed before the end of final training at the end of November.

After completing the morning schedule of the final camp at the Lotte 2nd team training center located in Sang-dong, Gimhae, Gyeongsangnam-do on the 26th, coach Kim Tae-hyung said, "As for the composition of the coaching staff, there are people I contacted directly after signing with Lotte and there are coaches who first said they wanted to work with me. "Overall, we all knew the coaches," he said. "Coach Kim Min-jae was considered the head coach from the beginning. He is a leader with a lot of experience in defense and base running. Coach Joo Hyung-kwang had never played together, but they did not have a personal relationship at all. "he said.

Lotte announced on the 22nd that it had decided not to renew the contracts of eight coaches, including acting coach Lee Jong-woon, Park Heung-sik, Jeon Jun-ho, Choi Gyeong-cheol, Jang Tae-soo, Jeong Ho-jin, Kim Dong-han, and coach Ryan Long, for next season.

Earlier, on the 20th, coach Kim Tae-hyung was appointed as the club's 21st head coach, and it was reported that coach Kim Tae-hyung was given a lot of authority in the composition of the first and second team coaching staff.

For the final training, coach Kim Tae-hyung worked with coaches who will wear Lotte uniforms next year, including 2nd team general coach Bae Young-soo, 1st team defense coach Moon Gyu-hyun, and 1st team defense coach Kim Hyun-wook, to identify the players.

However, the coaching staff that will work together in the spring camp next February and the 2024 regular league is currently undecided. There are media reports that coaches currently belonging to other teams are likely to go to Lotte, but an official announcement at the Lotte club level is expected to be made after the end of the postseason.

The leader who has been confirmed to go to Lotte so far is SSG coach Kim Min-jae. Coach Taehyung Kim expressed his intention to have Coach Minjae Kim as the head coach next season. Coach Kim Min-jae has experience assisting coach Kim Tae-hyung as the Doosan first team operations coach in 2019 and 2020.

While SSG ended the 2024 season by losing to the NC Dinos in the third game of the semi-playoffs on the 25th, Coach Kim Min-jae's move to Lotte was immediately announced through media reports.

Lotte's 'legendary' coach Joo Hyung-kwang is likely to be the first team's main pitching coach who will work with coach Tae-hyung Kim. Coach Joo Hyung-kwang graduated from Busan High School in 1994 and joined Lotte, leaving a record of 87 wins, 82 losses, 9 saves, 22 holds, and an ERA of 3.83 in 386 games. He recorded 18 wins, 7 losses, 1 save, 221 strikeouts, and an ERA of 3.36 in 30 games in the 1996 season, winning the titles of most wins and strikeouts king.

In the 1999 season, when Lotte last advanced to the Korean Series, he played the role of an ace with 31 games, 13 wins, 12 losses, and a save average of 3.98. In particular, in Game 7 of the 1999 playoffs against the Samsung Lions, he recorded a save that led Lotte to advance to the Korean Series.

It is known that Doosan coaches Ko Young-min and Kim Joo-chan are also scheduled to join Lotte in November. Coach Ko Young-min assisted coach Kim Tae-hyung as the first-team defense and base running coach from 2019 to last year.

Coach Kim Joo-chan began his coaching career at Doosan after being called by coach Kim Tae-hyung after retiring from KIA Tigers in 2020. After transferring to KIA through free agency at the end of the 2012 season as a player, he returned to his former team 11 years later.

Coach Kim Tae-hyung smiled and said, “When I offered to coach Lotte, there were coaches who readily said, ‘I will go,’ and there were also friends who talked about conditions,” and then expressed confidence, saying, “The composition of the coaching staff is good and good.”

Coach Taehyung Kim did not have the style of building a 'division' as is commonly referred to, even though he led the team for eight years during his time as Doosan's head coach (2015-2022). Even though he wasn't from the Bears, if he had the ability, he would have worked with them as a first-team coach.