Dae-ik Kim

Dae-ik Kim (김대익)

• Bats Left, Throws Left
• Height 5' 10", Weight 209 lb.

• School Kyungsung University
• High School Busan High School

• Born June 3, 1973 in Busan South Korea

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Biographical Information

Dae-ik Kim played in the Korea Baseball Organization for 12 years.

Kim played for South Korea in the 1993 Intercontinental Cup, hitting .333/.481/.381 with six walks, four runs and four RBI in nine games; he had eight putouts in center. Only Taek-jae Kwon (.500) had a better OPB for the team. He won Silver with them in the 1993 Asian Championship. The Lotte Giants selected him in the third round of the 1996 KBO draft, and he hit .283/.331/.439 with 6 homers in his first season. Kim then recorded a .273/.346/.402 batting line in 1997, and he batted .292/.363/.416 with 7 triples and 27 steals in 1998. Kim was 3rd in triples (tied with Jun-ho Jeon) and 5th in steals (between Jeon and Ji-man Song). He collected 16 steals with a .246/.318/.378 batting line in 1999, then he hit .278/.352/.392 with 4 triples in 2000. Kim ranked 5th in triples that season, one behind Young-woo Lee, Won-jin Chang, Jae-hong Park and Jong-bum Chae.

The Busan native crushed 5 homers with a .285/.337/.391 batting line in 2001, then he batted .264/.315/.333 in 2002. Kim slumped to .198/.277/.236 in 2003, then the Giants traded him with Seok-jin Park to the Samsung Lions for Jang-jin No and Seung-kwan Kim. Kim ended up hitting .290/.339/.386 in 2004, and he had a solid .314/.394/.395 batting line in 61 games in 2005. He helped Samsung win the 2005 Korean Series; in Game 2, he hit the tying homer in the 9th as his team rallied to win. He then played 107 games with a .243/.300/.301 batting line, but his batting line fell to .198/.303/.221 in 2007 then he announced his retirement. He was the baserunning coach for the Giants in 2015, and he became their fielding coach from 2016 to 2017. Kim also coached Busan High School from 2019 to 2020 and Bukyeong High School from 2021 to 2022. He became an assistant coach of Hongik University in 2023.

Overall, Kim hit .270/.335/.377 with 910 hits and 45 homers in 12 seasons in the KBO.

Sources

• Old IBAF site
• Namu Wiki