If Yang Shin had just grit his teeth and endured for one more year...

‌I never even imagined that Manager Sun would leave after 2010.
Not just Yang Shin, but all Samsung fans as well. Even the players...
He left at the end of 2010, and Manager Ryu Joong-il took office. If it had been Manager Ryu, he would have trusted Yang Shin and used him diligently as a starter.
It's such a shame. If Yang Shin had just endured for one more year, he would have played with the respect he deserved starting from 2011, and his records would have been far superior to what he left behind...
The first to reach 2,500 hits could have been recorded under Yang Jun-hyuk's name instead of Park Yong-taik's.
I'm not sure about 3,000 hits, but 2,700 to 2,800 hits would have been a certainty.
Currently, Choi Hyoung-woo is much older than Yang Jun-hyuk was at the time of his retirement, but Yang Jun-hyuk was certainly capable of performing at his age just as much as Choi Hyoung-woo does now.
Thinking about Yang Shin's retirement in 2010 still makes me very upset.
Manager Kim Sung-keun from SK had asked him to come, but because he wanted to retire at Samsung, he ultimately suppressed his desire to extend his active career and decided to retire.
After Manager Sun took office at Kia in the winter of 2011, he did the exact same thing at Kia in 2012 by forcing Lee Jong-beom into retirement... It really makes you realize that people never change.
When LG appointed Manager Yeom Kyung-yup, Manager Sun was also a candidate. If Manager Sun had taken the LG job back then, several of LG's veteran players would surely have been forced into retirement by now. People truly never change.