Dong-hee Yoon

Dong-hee Yoon (윤동희)

• Bats Right, Throws Right
• Height 6' 1", Weight 187 lb.

• High School Ansan Technical High School, Yatap High School

• Born September 18, 2003 in Goyang, Gyeonggi South Korea

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Biographical Information

Dong-hee Yoon has played in the Korea Baseball Organization and for the South Korean national team.

Yoon was a third-round pick of the Lotte Giants in the 2022 KBO draft. He was 2-for-13 with a double, run and a RBI in the 2022 KBO. He hit .200/.310/.280 in the 2022 U23 Baseball World Cup. In 2023, he became a regular and batted .287/.333/.354 while fielding .981 in right field. Yoon was the first Giants player to collect 100 hits in a season under the age of 20. He also played for South Korea in the 2022 Asian Games (held in '23 after delays from COVID-19). He had three hits in a loss to Taiwan and 3 runs and 3 RBI versus Thailand. He reached base three times in their Gold Medal Game win over Japan, exempting him from military duty in South Korea. He was at .435/.500/.739 with six runs, four doubles and six runs in six games, plus a homer (off Thailand's Phoomwut Wutthikorn). He was among the Games' leaders in runs (tied with Ji-hoon Choi and Hye-seong Kim), hits (10, 2nd, one behind Choi), doubles (1st), RBI (tied for first with YongKang Kou, Si-hwan Roh and Bo-gyeong Moon), total bases (17, 2 ahead of Kou), average, OBP, slugging and OPS. Yoon also represented South Korea in the 2023 Asia Professional Baseball Championship. He went 0-for-4 in the first two games, and he collected 2 hits with a double against Tzu-Chiang Lee of Taiwan. Yoon was 2-for-5 while driving in South Korea's only run against Kojiro Yoshimura in the Gold Medal Game, but Japan still beat his nation thanks to Makoto Kadowaki's walk-off hit.