Although the Golden Glove award was canceled, Keystone duo Park Min-woo (31) and Kim Joo-won (22) of the NC Dinos had a brilliant season.
Park Min-woo and Kim Joo-won were nominated for second baseman and shortstop, respectively, at the 2024 Shinhan SOL Bank KBO Golden Glove Awards held on the 13th, but they did not enjoy the joy of the award.

In the second baseman's category, Kim Hye-sung (60.8%), who announced his entry into the Major League Baseball (MLB), received 175 votes (60.8%), making Park Min-woo ranked third with 28 votes (9.7%). In the shortstop category, Park Chan-ho (154 votes) won after fierce competition with Park Sung-han (118 votes), and Kim Joo-won received only three votes (1.0%). Park Min-woo has won two awards (2019, 2020), but Kim Joo-won did not enjoy his first honor.

Although they were pushed back by a wide margin from the winners, this does not necessarily mean the difference between the two players and the Golden Glover. Park Min-woo and Kim Joo-won were among the few things to brag about in NC, which had a difficult season this year.

This year, Park played in 121 games and posted a batting average of 0.328 (150 hits in 457 times at bat), eight homers, 50 RBIs and 75 runs scored, 32 steals, and an on-base percentage of 0.406 with a slugging percentage of 0.446 and an OPS of 0.852. He displayed outstanding performance in general, and his OPS was the highest among second basemen of the 10 teams. Although he was not included in the first team due to a shoulder injury, he recorded 150 hits in four years and 30 steals in nine years.

Notably, Park wore the captain's armband instead of Son Ah-seop (36), who left the team due to a cruciate ligament injury in the beginning of the second half of the season. This is the first time in five years since he assumed the captaincy post when Na Sung-bum (current Kia Tigers) was injured during the season out in 2019. Having shown leadership by leading players well, Park became an official captain after the season.

When Park himself was told that he was the top second baseman in the league, he shook his head, saying, "Absolutely not." "I wonder if personal records are really meaningful because the team's performance is not good. At some point, I stopped paying attention to my own records," he said.

Kim Ju-won is the player who achieved the "great reversal in September." He had a batting average of 0.252 (97 hits in 385 times at bat), nine homers, 49 RBIs and 61 runs, 16 steals, and an on-base-plus-slugging percentage of 0.371 and an OPS of 0.75 in 134 games this season. His statistics do not show much. However, he was the highest among shortstop with a 3.75 WAR (contributing to victory over substitute players) based on Statistics Korea, a baseball statistics site. 토토사이트
This year, Kim had difficulties in batting as he started three games without a hit. He showed a batting average of 0.169 through April, and his monthly batting average had never been in the 200 range until July except for May (0.271). He ended the first half with a batting average of 0.195. However, he rose to 0.333 in August, and then hit hard with a batting average of 0.346 after September. "I think the training to get the bat to the shortest distance from the batter's box resulted in good results," Kim said at the end of the season.

Amid this performance, Kim Joo-won was selected to the World Baseball Softball Confederation (WBSC) Premier 12 national team this year, following last year's Hangzhou Asian Games and the Asian Professional Baseball Championship (APBC), and once again put on the national flag.

There were, of course, second basemen better than Park Min-woo and shortstop better than Kim Ju-won. However, no one has posted a higher WAR ratio between the main second basemen and shortstop than NC (8.45). As such, the two players performed well together. Although NC failed to advance to the post season with 61 wins, 81 losses and two draws (0.430 win rate) during the season, their performance gave comfort to NC.