On August 14, Sports Kyunghyang cited a baseball sector employee who said that the actor Lee Jung-Jae had invested 20 billion KRW (about 14.4 million dollars) in production, while another suggested that he could have purchased or financed a new baseball team. The rumors have come like A clean sweep Prepare a new start with a new production team and a renewed cast.
Speculation seemed surprising, given the limited public connection of Lee with baseball, as well as launching the first shot in a game Kiwoom vs. LG in 2022 to promote his film Hunting. His only other remarkable connection is through the dear friend Jung Woo-Sung, a member of the “Playboys” basic team. The alleged link a A clean sweep According to reports, it was trained through the former professional player Shim Soo-Chang, who now leads a new team supported by the Gyeongi-Do Baseball Softball Association.
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If true, the investment would have marked Lee’s first incursion in the growing “Sportinment” sector. Originally launched in 2022, A clean sweep He ended in his third season in February 2025 among the internal disputes, leading the Democratic Party Jang Si-Won and the original cast to move on to the web series Burning Baseball. Since then JTBC has appointed CP Sung Chi-Kyung ( We play football 4) and Pd Ahn Sung-Han to drive the restart, with a coaching formation with Lee Jong-Beom and Jang Sung-Ho, as well as players such as Kim Tae-Kyun and Na Ji-Wan.
However, the company of artists from the Lee Agency denied relationships, affirming:
“While we examined the possibility of participating in a baseball variety show at the company level, it was not A clean sweep. This seems to have been a speculation from the ongoing discussions, but we are not examining it now. “
JTBC also rejected the requests, saying:
“The information is not true.”
With both sides that deny the voices, the potential passage of Lee Jung-Jae in baseball entertainment seems to be waiting at least for now.
Sources: Nate
