2024 Korea Baseball Organization

The 2024 Korea Baseball Organization season was the 43rd for the KBO. Foreign players occupied the leaderboard again as Kyle Hart was the strikeout leader and won the Choi Dong-won Award, and James Naile grabbed the ERA title. Victor Reyes broke the KBO single-season hits record, Guillermo Heredia won the batting title and Matt Davidson led in dingers. 20-year-old phenomenon Do-yeong Kim set the KBO record for most runs scored, and he became the youngest player to reach 30-30. He won the KBO MVP award and Gold Glove award. In the 2024 Korean Series, the KIA Tigers beat their fellow big cats - the Samsung Lions - and won their 12th title.

Standings

(Manager in parentheses)

1. KIA Tigers, 87-55-2 (Bum-ho Lee)
2. Samsung Lions, 78-64-2 (Jin-man Park)
3. LG Twins, 76-66-2 (Kyoung-youb Youm)
4. Doosan Bears, 74-68-2 (Seung-yeop Lee)
5. kt Wiz, 72-70-2 (Kang-chul Lee)
6. SSG Landers, 72-70-2 (Soong-yong Lee)
7. Lotte Giants, 66-74-4 (Tae-hyeong Kim)
8. Hanwha Eagles, 66-76-2 (Kyung-moon Kim)
9. NC Dinos, 61-81-2 (Ho-joon Lee)
10. Kiwoom Heroes, 58-86-0 (Won-ki Hong)

Playoffs: KT def. Doosan, 2 game to 0; LG def. KT, 3 games to 2; Samsung def. LG, 3 games to 1

2024 Korean Series: KIA vs. Samsung 4 games to 1

Leaders

Italics indicate all-time record

Batting

Statistic	Leader	Team	Number
Batting Average	Guillermo Heredia	SSG Landers	.360
Runs	Do-yeong Kim	KIA Tigers	143
Hits	Victor Reyes	Lotte Giants	202
Doubles	Victor Reyes	Lotte Giants	40
Triples	Do-yeong Kim	KIA Tigers	10
Home Runs	Matt Davidson	NC Dinos	46
Runs Batted In	Austin Dean	LG Twins	132
Stolen Bases	Soo-haeng Jo	Doosan Bears	64
Walks	Chang-ki Hong	LG Twins	96

Pitching

Statistic	Leader	Team	Number
ERA	James Naile	KIA Tigers	2.53
Wins	Been Gwak Tae-in Won	Doosan Bears Samsung Lions	15
Losses	William Cuevas Jae-hak Lee	KT Wiz NC Dinos	12
Holds	Kyung-eun Noh	SSG Landers	38
Saves	Hai-young Jung	KIA Tigers	31
Innings Pitched	Aaron Wilkerson	Lotte Giants	196 2/3
Appearances	Kyung-eun Noh Byeong-heon Lee	SSG Landers Doosan Bears	77
Hits Allowed	Aaron Wilkerson	Lotte Giants	210
Home Runs Allowed	Wes Benjamin	KT Wiz	28
Strikeouts	Kyle Hart	NC Dinos	182
Base-on-Balls	Been Gwak	Doosan Bears	76

Award Winners

Award	Player	Team	Position	AB	R	H	HR	RBI	SB	AVG	OBP	SLG	W - L	SV	IP	HA	HRA	BB	SO	ERA
Most Valuable Player	Do-yeong Kim	KIA Tigers	3B	544	143	189	38	109	40	.347	.420	.647	Did not pitch
Rookie of the Year	Taek-yeon Kim	Doosan Bears	P	Did not bat									3 - 2	19	65.0	51	2	31	78	2.08

Gold Glove

The following players were the recipients of the Gold Glove Award in 2024.

Position	Player	Team
P	Kyle Hart	NC Dinos
C	Min-ho Kang	Samsung Lions
1B	Austin Dean	LG Twins
2B	Hye-seong Kim	Kiwoom Heroes
3B	Do-yeong Kim	KIA Tigers
SS	Chan-ho Park	KIA Tigers
OF	Victor Reyes	Lotte Giants
OF	Ja-wook Koo	Samsung Lions
OF	Mel Rojas Jr.	KT Wiz
DH	Hyoung-woo Choi	KIA Tigers

Fielding Awards

The following players were the recipients of the Fielding Awards in 2024.

Position	Player	Team
P	Kyle Hart	NC Dinos
C	Dong-won Park	LG Twins
1B	Austin Dean	LG Twins
2B	Hye-seong Kim	Kiwoom Heroes
3B	Kyoung-min Hur	Doosan Bears
SS	Chan-ho Park	KIA Tigers
LF	Guillermo Heredia	SSG Landers
CF	Soo-bin Jung	Doosan Bears
RF	Chang-ki Hong	LG Twins