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In December 2023, it was announced that the 2024 season would be Choo Shin-soo's final season in professional baseball. Choo, who spent 15 years in Major League Baseball from 2005 to 2020, played in Seattle, Cleveland, Cincinnati and Texas. He turned 42 on July 13. Due to a shoulder injury, he was limited to playing only 77 of the 144 games ...
The KBO League (Korean: KBO 리그) is the highest level league of baseball in South Korea, contested by ten teams. The KBO League was founded with six franchises in 1982 and is the most popular sports league in South Korea. [2] The Kia Tigers are the most successful team, having won 12 of the 43 championships.
The 2023 KBO League season was the 42nd season in the history of the KBO League. The regular season began on April 1 and concluded on October 17. [1] A postseason followed, culminating with the Korean Series championship. SSG Landers entered the season as the defending champions.
In South Korea, the opener means something else: the world’s top league has finally come to the baseball-loving Asian nation. South Korea’s 42-year-old domestic league is most known for its ...
The South Korean national baseball team (Korean: 대한민국 야구 국가대표팀), also known as the Blue Wave (Korean: 푸른물결), is the national baseball team of South Korea. It has participated in every edition of the World Baseball Classic (WBC), reaching the finals in 2009 , and won the WBSC Premier12 in 2015 .
The Korea Baseball Organization (KBO) has announced rule changes for the 2025 season, including the pitch clock and the automated ball-strike (ABS) system. The KBO will implement the pitch clock starting in the regular season, with pitchers starting their delivery within 20 seconds with the bases empty and 25 seconds with runners on.
The 2024 Korean Series (known as the 2024 Shinhan SOL Bank Korean Series for sponsorship reasons) was a championship series of the 2024 KBO League season between the Kia Tigers and the Samsung Lions. [1] [2] [unreliable source?] The Tigers and Lions had the two best win-loss records in the 2024 KBO League season. [3]
No changes were made to the league's makeup from the prior season, with the same 10 teams competing. [2] Each team is scheduled to play 144 games, via facing every other team 16 times. [3] The league announced some operational changes: [4] If two teams are tied for the final playoff spot (5th place), the teams will play a single-game tiebreaker.