It's a self-sacrifice. He paid a considerable price for what he had done. Na Kyun-an of the Lotte Giants in professional baseball has time for self-reflection. And the club actually gave him the last chance.

Lotte held a disciplinary committee involving team leader-level officials, including general manager Park Joon-hyuk, on the morning of the 28th, and imposed a 30-game suspension and 40 hours of community service on pitcher Na Kyun-an, who stayed at a drinking party from the day before his start to the dawn of the day. The club said, "We decided to take disciplinary action for a combination of violations of bylaws such as damaging corporate and club image, damaging dignity as a member, and neglecting to prepare for the game as a professional baseball player."노래방알바

Na Kyun-an was announced as the starting pitcher for the match against Sajik KIA on the 25th, but the day before the game, it caused a stir when it was revealed that he attended a drinking party near Sajik Stadium. Fans were infested with photos posted on the Internet community that Na Kyun-an was having a drinking party. Even if he was a starting pitcher, it was enough reason for the problem that he was at the time and drinking party.

He lacked professional consciousness and deceived fans and his teammates. The team and its manager, Kim Tae-hyung, also made an attempt to replace the starting pitcher after learning about Na's drinking controversy, but due to the rule that the starting pitcher cannot be replaced except for injury, the team sent the starting pitcher as its starter. However, the result turned out to be the worst. He was severely booed by Lotte's home fans as he allowed seven hits (one homer) and six walks, two strikeouts and eight runs in the first ⅔ inning. 

Lotte imposed light punishment on the team. The team discussed the level of punishment based on internal rules of the team and withdrew Na from the team by compiling past cases. It is not just the controversy over drinking this time. During this year's spring camp, Na had a hard time due to personal history issues, including rumors of an affair. All the teams focused their efforts on responding to the rumor about Na's affair. Even in preparation for the regular season, the team was not fully concentrated due to time to lack of capacity and personal issues with Na. Nevertheless, the team tolerated Na to come back after solving personal issues on her own, and manager Kim Tae-hyung appointed her as the fourth starting pitcher, believing in Na's pitching capability. 

However, Na hardly managed to play in the first division due to controversy over her personal history. Her performance was not good even before the controversy over drinking alcohol. Currently, her performance was just 2-7 with a 9.05 ERA in 14 games. In the end, all these issues have accumulated and the punishment has been imposed. Manager Kim Tae-hyung also agreed on Na's severe punishment, saying, "We will leave it to the club's internal rules." 

He disappointed everyone with his lack of professional consciousness. And with just one wrong act, Na will lose a lot. For now, no disciplinary period or salary will be paid for the 30-game suspension of Na. Na's annual salary is 170 million won (122,000 U.S. dollars) this year. He cannot be paid for such period by dividing his annual salary into the number of days applied for disciplinary action. 

In addition, the number of days of FA registration to acquire free agent (FA) status will also be affected. So far, Na has 78 days of registration. If there are 30 games based on the date of announcement of disciplinary action, he can return to his team in early August. If the rain is canceled due to rainy season and other reasons, the date of disciplinary action may be further delayed. As team training is also prohibited during disciplinary action, the timing of return to the primary team will inevitably be delayed further if the team builds up its physical fitness and acquires game sense. According to KBO regulations, high school graduates who joined the team after the 2006 season can become free agents if eight seasons have 145 or more active active days registered in the primary team. At this point, chances are extremely low that Na will meet the 145 days of registration in the primary team.

After joining the team as a catcher in 2017, Na played a considerable number of games as a catcher and stayed in the first division. The number of days registered in the first division of the 2017 rookie season was 55 days, but it was 172 days in 2018 and 183 days in 2019. In 2020, when he turned from catcher to pitcher, he was never registered in the first division, but he stayed in the first division for 90 days in 2021, 190 days in 2022 and 180 days in 2023 when he completely turned into a pitcher.

If Na showed robust behavior and solid performance this year, it would not be difficult to complete 145 days of registration. If the season went smoothly like this, Na would have been able to become a free agent at the end of the 2026 season. However, as she has been committing deviant behavior by herself, the situation has also been delayed.

All of them are attributable to Na. Still, Lotte gave Na one last chance. Manager Kim Tae-hyung also hopes that Na will reflect on himself and come back to the team. "I would like to apologize to the coaching staff, seniors and juniors, colleagues and staff members under the coach," Na said without making any excuse at the disciplinary committee meeting. "I will try to make sure that the same thing does not happen again in the future, and I will reflect on myself," he lowered his head. Will Na really come back after self-reflection without missing the last line that the club gave him.