Chan-yup Roh

Chan-yup Roh (노찬엽)

• Bats Right, Throws Right
• Height 5' 6", Weight 169 lb.

• School Korea University
• High School Paichai High School

• Born January 15, 1965 in Seoul South Korea

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Biographical Information

Chan-yup Roh played in the Korea Baseball Organization for 9 years.

Roh played for the South Korean national team in the 1986 Amateur World Series, 1987 Asian Championship, 1987 Intercontinental Cup, 1988 Baseball World Cup and 1988 Olympics. In the 1988 Cup, he hit .289/.432/.342 with 10 walks and 5 steals in 11 games, fielding .955 in left. He did not lead the event in walks; Ty Griffin had 14, Fu-Lien Wu 13 and Ted Wood 11. He was one behind steal co-leaders Tom Goodwin, Julio Medina and Kenji Tomashino.

The MBC Blue Dragons selected him in the first round of the 1989 KBO draft, and he hit .287/.374/.381 with a league-leading 6 triples in his first season. Roh improved to .333/.403/.450 with 5 homers in 1990, and he was 3rd in batting (between Kang-don Lee and Sang-hun Kim), 2nd in OBP (.029 behind Dae-hwa Han) and 3rd in triples (tied with Ho-seong Lee and Kang-don Lee).

The Seoul native was still a solid batter in 1991, and he hit .317/.388/.429 with 8 triples and 22 doubles. He was 5th in triples (4 behind Jeong-hun Lee), 6th in batting (tied with Man-soo Lee) and 4th in hits (tied with Jeong-hun Lee and Jong-tae Park). Roh crushed 6 homers with a .272/.354/.378 batting line in 1992, then he slumped to .244/.317/.359 in 1993. He bounced back in 1994, and he crushed a career-high 10 homers with 6 triples and a .279/.357/.441 batting line. He led the league in triples for the second straight year (tied with Jong-ho Park). Roh blasted 9 homers with a .253/.310/.393 batting line in 1995, then he recorded a .243/.329/.341 batting line in 1996. His batting line fell to .226/.308/.330 in 1997, then he announced his retirement.

Roh was the baserunning coach of the LG Twins from 2000 to 2001 and from 2004 to 2008, and he was the hitting coach of their minor league team in 2002 and fielding coach in 2003. He became the fielding coach of the Hanwha Eagles in 2009, and he returned to the Twins as their minor league manager from 2012 to 2013. He was also the batting coach of LG in 2015.

Overall, Roh hit .279/.356/.396 with 778 hits and 43 homers in 9 seasons in the KBO.

Sources

• Defunct IBAF site
• Namu Wiki