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Jae-Hwan Kim To Return To KBO For 2020 Season

By Mark Polishuk | January 5, 2020 at 5:45pm CDT

Korean outfielder Jae-Hwan Kim’s posting deadline has come and gone without a contract with a Major League club, according to Jeeho Yoo of Yonhap News (Twitter link).  As such, Kim will return to the KBO League’s Doosan Bears for the 2020 season, and he isn’t eligible to be posted again until November.

After being officially posted on December 6, Kim had until 4pm CT today to work out a deal with an MLB team.  Kim’s agency tells Yoo that four Major League clubs had discussions about the outfielder’s services, though the Marlins were the only team publicly known to have interest in Kim, and even that interest may have waned after Corey Dickerson was signed.  It’s possible that clubs weren’t comfortable signing a player they knew relatively little about, as Yoo wrote in another piece earlier this week that “Kim came out of blue to enter the open market via posting, which left surprised major league scouts without detailed reports on the player that they could send to their clubs.”

It isn’t known if Kim will again attempt a jump to North American baseball after the 2020 season, when he’ll be 32 years old.  Regardless if Kim’s future focus is on the Bears or the big leagues, he’ll certainly look to improve on his 115 home runs and .283/.362/.434 slash line over 574 plate appearances last season.  While a respectable performance on paper, it represents a modest showing in the hitter-friendly KBO League, and a big step down from the 116 homers and 1.000+ OPS totals Kim posted from 2016-18.

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  1. bardbot

    6 years ago

    gonna be hard to improve on 115 HR

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    • wv17

      6 years ago

      It’s a hitter’s league.

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      • AndyWarpath

        6 years ago

        Pretty sure no league is THAT hitter friendly.

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        • deweybelongsinthehall

          6 years ago

          Article indicates the 115 number is the composite total from 2015 through 2018, a period of four seasons.

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        • deweybelongsinthehall

          6 years ago

          116 = 29 per year average.

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        • deweybelongsinthehall

          6 years ago

          My bad too. 115 is a typo. Next line mentions the 116 cumulation for the four previous years.

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        • findingnimmo

          6 years ago

          3 years so 39/year

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    • todd76

      6 years ago

      Looks like some bad editing in this article. I clicked on the players link it says 15 homeruns for 2019…..

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    • creacher

      6 years ago

      *15hr last season

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  2. dynamite drop in monty

    6 years ago

    Anyone here play Baseball Stars for NES?

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    • robluca21

      6 years ago

      Used to love that game as a kid…can’t get that game music out of my head

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      • dynamite drop in monty

        6 years ago

        Yeah that’s actually what got me thinking about it. Randomly the “runners in scoring position” music was in my head. DUN DUN DUNDUN DUN DUN DUNDUN DUNDUN DUDUNDUN DUN DUN DUN DUNNUN

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    • matteste187

      6 years ago

      Extra innings was also a great game

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      • dynamite drop in monty

        6 years ago

        While baseball stars was ahead of its time when it came to pioneering rosters, GM functions and created players, extra innings was one of the first games I could recall in which you had specific control over the player with sliding and diving catches

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        • findingnimmo

          6 years ago

          Rbi baseball was my favorite. Triple play was decent too

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  3. bballblk

    6 years ago

    I don’t think someone coming off of a 115 HR season would be unknown to MLB scouts

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  4. tjettman

    6 years ago

    115 home runs?!?

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  5. DarkSide830

    6 years ago

    how is any player in the NPB or KBO an unknown in the internet era, especially one who might have been the KBO’s best hitter from 2016-18?

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    • jorge78

      6 years ago

      Uh, yea. What do they have? 10 teams?
      8 teams?

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  6. makaio6

    6 years ago

    115 HR in 574 plate appearances? What a down year. No wonder nobody wanted him.

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    • Appalachian_Outlaw

      6 years ago

      If he had just hit .300… Lol

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  7. jorge78

    6 years ago

    Contract year in the wrong year…..

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  8. robluca21

    6 years ago

    Insert generic joke about 115 home run typo in article…pretending to be original

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    • nymetsking

      6 years ago

      but the 115 HR typo tho.

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    • ReverieDays

      6 years ago

      This comment is even more cringe.

      Reply
  9. lowtalker1

    6 years ago

    My create a player on rookie mode after getting called up in July

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    • findingnimmo

      6 years ago

      Ha!

      Reply
  10. Briffle2

    6 years ago

    I haven’t see that any home runs in a season since Domingo Ayala hit 145. He did it in only 154 games though.

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  11. davemlaw

    6 years ago

    When MLB players careers start to wind down and they’re just about at the end of their rope they go to the KBO, like Adam Jones. Not sure why Kim’s posting team thought MLB would take their sloppy seconds when MLB has been in a youth movement for the last 5 years?

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