A Nexen Seoul Heroes player looks out into the snowfield that is Mokdong Stadium in a photo taken earlier today. It snowed like crazy over most of Korea last night, even where I live in Ulsan, which is just about the least likely place in Korea to see snow due to its low elevation and [...]

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Ground was broken today on a new baseball stadium in Pohang. This is somewhat exciting for me because I live just an hour away from the city. Although to be fair I’m about an hour from Busan and Daegu as well. But potential KBO expansion is exciting and since POSCO is to Pohang as Hyundai [...]

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LG catcher Joh In-sung and new Twins pitcher Edgar Gonzalez try to work out some differences in signs via a translator during their spring camp in Okinawa.

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Very cool image put together by Bill Turianski, who does a site called billsportsmaps.com, which is filled with all kinds of interesting regional sports maps from both the past and the present. Some are delightfully obscure (NHL 1970-71 season anyone?).
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He’s also got an NPB on in the works he’s planning on posting very [...]

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On my moonlighting blog I started a category called My Artistic Renderings Will Make You Weep as Though You’ve Seen an Angel that was supposed to compile various Korean architectural drawings. It’s my opinion that in Korea, where the image is always of severe importance, these sorts of drawings are meant to look even more [...]

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In 2000, Lotte catcher Lim Soo-hyuk collapsed after running from first to second base during a game versus the LG Twins. He fell into a coma and never came out of it – dying at Kangdong Sacred Heart Hospital in Seoul on Feb. 7.
I hate to use a death or a funeral to make what I [...]

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I think I’m going to be deferring to Matt for the KBO coverage this year (check out his series preview here), but Lotte’s game 1 win is certainly worth a mention here considering Royster’s finest were swept out of the post-season last year. This gives the Giants home field, which is a big advantage for [...]

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Last year I tried to go out on a limb and say Kia would challenge for a playoff spot in 2008. I was a year off, but my reasoning was quite wrong. I thought the continued (re)development of ex-MLB guys like Seo Jae-woong and Choi Hee-seop would eventually gel with younger talents like Han Ki-joo [...]

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Mark Hulet from Fangraphs dedicated an entire post to the Korean Cubs, focusing on Hak-ju Lee, but also Rhee Dae-eun, Su Jung-min and Jae-hoon Ha. He’s complementary all the way around.
I like and respect Fangraphs quite a bit and think Hulet is one of the more knowledgeable guys doing this kind of prospect analysis, so [...]

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On Sept. 16 SK and LG played to a 2-2 draw, but before that you’d have to go back to Aug. 23 to find the team’s last loss, a 2-1 game against Kia. The fact the team has done it without it’s best pitcher, Kim Kwang-hyun, who has been on the DL since getting hit [...]

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In a story that is as of yet being buried by the Korean sports media the KBO is giving players from the 2nd place finishing WBC less than it had originally promised back before the tournament started.
The article (in Korean) doesn’t say what the original agreement was, but only that the players will receive 32 [...]

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I thought this was announced awhile ago, but the winners of the NPB and KBO are going to square off for an exhilarating one-game championship for all the marbles (the italics indicate an echo monster truck voice) on Nov. 14. It’s going to be called the Asia Baseball Champion and will be played at 1 [...]

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I shouldn’t make too light of this. The guy obviously has a problem. Then again…Jung Su-keun was busted in Haeundae, where I’m known to enjoy a beer now and again, and he was reportedly found with his shirt off. That’s kind of funny.
Police said they did not charge him because of no physical damage inflicted [...]

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Major League Trade Rumors brings word of two amateur signings out of Korea.
The Chicago Cubs have continued their Atilla the Hun-like march across the Asian continent, this time signing centerfielder Na Kyung-min to a minor league deal with a bonus reported around 725,000. Na has been called “the fastest player in Korean high school baseball” [...]

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And I’m quoted in it. And actually, in looking over my quotes here I think I’ve entered into realm of “scout speak.” Kind of an accomplishment for me, really.
The title is Korea’s love affair with baseball stronger than ever. I kind of like the premise — of Koreans enjoying baseball (as opposed to soccer). The article [...]

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Another fun post by Uniwatch in conjunction with Jeremy Brahm — this time a look at some of the KBO logos and uniforms that are no longer with us. Let me be up from about the fact that if there’s anyone who knows how I can get one or two of these put on a [...]

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I got confused when I read the headline Seoul man: South Korean adds more international flavor to O’s. Not only because of the painful overuse of “Seoul man,” in articles about Koreans, but because I thought the Orioles had signed a Korean player.

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Jeremy Brahm has been sending me a few other Korean baseball related tidbits he’s found here and there, one of which is a pretty nifty collection of 1980s advertisements featuring KBO players. The above clip is for Bear, which was (is?) an over-the-counter medicine meant to aid digestion. The player is Yoon Dong-kyun, who played for [...]

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With an eye on the Futures Game rosters, Baseball Digest Daily takes a look back at an Asian prospects list it compiled earlier this year. Funny enough, a few of us that were scouting a tournament last week came across the original list and talked about it for a good 30 minutes. There’s no right [...]

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Jeremy Brahm, who I mentioned having had an interesting email exchange about KBO uniforms with, has finished the first in what will be a two part series for Uniwatch. Co-written with the site’s Phil Hecken, this initial piece is a comprehensive look at the current KBO uniforms, which includes home/away jerseys, as well as the [...]

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