Dong-joo Shin

Dong-joo Shin (신동주)

• Bats Right, Throws Right
• Height 6' 0", Weight 182 lb.

• High School Pohang Jecheol High School

• Born December 14, 1972 in Gumi, North Gyeongsang South Korea

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Biographical Information

Outfielder Dong-joo Shin played 15 seasons in the Korea Baseball Organization.

He debuted with the Samsung Lions in 1992, going 0-for-5 as a teenager. He was 0 for 1 in 1993 and hit .188/.212/.219 in 33 plate appearances in 1994. By 1995, he was playing regularly, batting .238/.299/.338. He tied for 10th in hit-by-pitch (8) and was 10th in steals (23). In 1996, he improved to .230/.330/.437 but saw reduced action.

Shin broke out in 1997, when he batted .326/.396/.582 with 79 runs, 37 doubles, 21 homers and 18 swipes. He made leaderboards in average (5th, between Jae-hong Park and Jong-beom Lee), runs (7th, between Byung-kyu Lee and Ji-hyun Ryu), doubles (tied the legendary Seung-yeop Lee for first), homers (10th), HBP (14, tied for 2nd), OBP, slugging (5th, between Jong-beom Lee and Seung-yeop Lee) and OPS. He was not named one of the KBO's top three outfielders; Joon-hyuk Yang, Jae-hong Park and Byung-kyu Lee were chosen that year.

He was still solid in 1998 at .290/.375/.492 and was third with 13 times plunked. In 1999, he had his only 20-20 season with 22 homers and 26 swipes in 31 tries. He batted .278/.333/.462 with 87 RBI that campaign. He was 8th in stolen bases and 3rd in hit-by-pitch (12). He batted .261/.339/.423 in 2000 and made his last leaderboards - 10th in steals (17 in 21 tries) and tied for 3rd in hit-by-pitch (13). Moving to the KIA Tigers, he hit .284/.353/.437 in 2001 and .312/.377/.443 in 2002; had he qualified, he would have been 7th in average in '02.

Afer he hit .263/.353/.429 in 2003, he returned to Samsung as compensation when they lost Hae-young Ma. He eked out a .219/.291/.343 line as a bench player for the Lions in 2004 and then was dealt back to the Tigers for Yong-ho Choi. He was only 3-for-32 with a walk and 13 whiffs in 2005 and 1-for-13 with a walk in 2006.

For his career, he had batted .272/.344/.440 with 122 steals in 173 tries, 110 homers, 448 runs and 415 RBI in 1,041 games. He later was a batting coach for the Lions.