한국프로야구에서 ‘타고투저’ 완화를 위한 근거이론적 접근

Abstract

The purpose of this study is to derive the factors that can mitigate the irregularity between the ability of the pitcher and the ability of the hitter that are raised in Korean professional baseball through ground theory. In order to carry out this study, 6 participants including current professional baseball players, leaders and related persons who experienced Korean professional baseball, and 2 sports journalists and columnists with insight into Korean professional baseball were set as the participants. The data collected were analyzed through open coding, axis coding, and selective coding in accordance with the analysis method of the “grounded theory of Strauss & Corbin(1990)”. First, a total of 28 concepts, 14 subcategories, and 6 top categories were derived through open coating. Second, the six paradigms of causal conditions, situational context, central phenomena, intervening conditions, interaction strategies, and the consequences were identified in relation to each other. Third, through the selection coding, we tried to get a way to mitigate the imbalance between the pitcher 's ability and the hitter' s ability in Korean professional baseball. In this study, it is meaningful to suggest the data that Korean professional baseball can develop with the change of official ball, the development of pitcher, and the change of system and rule.