Dong-ki Kim

Dong-ki Kim (김동기)

• Bats Right, Throws Right

• School Inha University
• High School Incheon High School

• Born March 5, 1964 in Incheon South Korea

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Biographical Information

Dong-ki Kim caught in the Korea Baseball Organization for 11 years. His brother Sang-ki Kim played in the KBO.

Kim played for South Korea in the 1981 World Junior Championship and 1985 Intercontinental Cup. The Chungbo Pintos selected him in the first round of the 1986 KBO draft, and he hit .248/.314/.448 with 10 homers in his first season. He then recorded a .277/.374/.414 batting line with 21 doubles in 1987, and he was 4th in doubles (tied with Kwang-eun Lee). Kim crushed 10 homers with a .359/.441/.594 batting line in 1988, but he only played 62 games so he didn't win the batting title. He was the first KBO catcher to start all 120 games in 1989, and he hit .251/.378/.401 with 11 homers. Kim led the league with 25 doubles (tied with Kyung-sik Shin), ranking 7th in RBI (tied with Cheol-woo Park and Young-jun Han) and 10th in homers (tied with Yong-cheol Kim). In the 14th inning of the KBO playoff series first round Game 1, Kim crushed a walk-off three-run home run off Seong-kil Kim but his team lost to the Haitai Tigers in the final round.

The Incheon native blasted 14 homers with a .250/.352/.441 batting line in 1990, and he was 7th in homers (tied with Seung-an Yoo and Sang-ho Kim). Kim was still a productive player in 1991, and he blasted 7 homers with a .262/.354/.374 batting line. He improved to .294/.391/.487 with 15 homers in 1992, then he slumped to .244/.340/.349 with 3 homers in 1993. He crushed a grand slam against Dong-yeol Sun in the 1993 KBO All-Star Game. Kim hit .264/.352/.429 with 15 homers in 1994, and he was 8th in homers (tied with Ji-hyun Yoo, Min-ho Kim and Tae-il Song. However, Kim struggled in 1995 as his batting line was .173/.269/.364, then he announced his retirement after hitting .212/.307/.384 in 1996.

Overall, Kim hit .262/.359/.426 with 812 hits and 108 homers in 11 seasons in the KBO.

Sources

• Namu Wiki