American sports fans know exactly what an attendance record means. It’s the number network broadcasts flash on screen during a pennant race, the stat that shows up in year-end wrap-ups about a league’s health, and the figure team owners point to when they want to prove a sport is still growing rather than fading. So … Read more
He threw his first pitch in the KBO League back in 2004. Twenty-two years later, he is still on a big-league mound — and he is closing in on two of the rarest career markers in Korean baseball history. Woo Gyu-min, a 41-year-old relief pitcher for the KT Wiz, told reporters in a July 30, … Read more
Every few years, a young player comes along whose skill set is so unusual that scouts reach for the same comparison almost by reflex: the next Shohei Ohtani. It is a name that gets thrown around loosely in amateur baseball circles, attached to almost any two-way talent who can both pitch and hit at a … Read more
Half a game. That is the entire distance between first place and second place in the KBO League as of August 25, 2026. The KT Wiz sit atop the standings, riding a 60-win season, while the Samsung Lions trail by the slimmest of margins after grinding out a hard-fought draw on the road. And now, … Read more
Lee Jung-hoo was in the lineup card for the San Francisco Giants on August 27, 2026 (Korea time), penciled in third and set to play right field against the Cincinnati Reds. Then he wasn’t. Before first pitch, Lee’s name came off the card — a change that reporting linked directly to a pitch he had … Read more
There’s a version of Ji-Man Choi’s comeback story that most American readers already understand instinctively: a former Major League player, eight seasons and 525 games deep, 67 home runs to his name for the Chicago Cubs, Tampa Bay Rays, Toronto Blue Jays, and Pittsburgh Pirates, decides to keep playing baseball in his home country. That … Read more
A 20-year-old rookie stood one inning away from tying a record that had stood for 32 years — and his manager pulled him anyway. On August 25, 2026, in a game against the Hanwha Eagles in Incheon, SSG Landers rookie starting pitcher Kim Min-jun worked five innings, allowed one run, and threw 92 pitches before … Read more
Five days. That is all it took for Samsung Lions infielder Kim Young-woong to go from a demotion to the KBO Futures League to a decisive, bases-loaded grand slam in front of a packed Gocheok Sky Dome crowd. The 23-year-old had been working in Korea’s minor-league system to iron out problems in his swing, and … Read more
Every year, a small number of pitchers make the trip from the KBO League back to Major League Baseball, and almost every one of them arrives carrying the same quiet question: does success in Korea actually mean anything once you’re back on a big-league mound? On May 21, 2026, Drew Anderson gave American fans about … Read more
Imagine two of the best young starting pitchers in the sport, both 27 years old, both drafted in the same class, both close friends away from the field — and imagine that, despite years of overlapping careers in the same league, they had never once started a game against each other. Then imagine a rainout … Read more