Han-wool Kang

Han-wool Kang (강한울)

• Bats Left, Throws Right
• Height 5' 11", Weight 145 lb.

• School Wonkwang University
• High School Ansan Technical High School

• Born September 12, 1991 in Seoul South Korea

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Biographical Information

Han-wool Kang has played in the Korea Baseball Organization and for the South Korea national baseball team.

Kang represented Korea in the 2013 East Asian Games and won a Silver medal. The KIA Tigers selected him in the 1st round of the 2014 KBO draft, and he hit .264/.294/.327 in 93 games in his rookie year. He struggled in 2015 as his batting line was .205/.250/.258, then he improved to .272/.307/.336 in 2016. The Samsung Lions then selected him as the compensation for the loss of free agent Hyoung-woo Choi, and he played a career-high 135 games with a .303/.344/.340 batting line in 2017. On July 7, he became the first KBO player to have had more than 1,000 at-bats without hitting a home run. Kang was moved to second base after Sang-du Kim returned in 2018, and he recorded a .259/.306/.306 batting line.

The Seoul native then missed most of the next two seasons due to military service, and he hit .305/.368/.362 in 34 games in 2020 after returning in September. He crushed his first career homer against the Doosan Bears on September 25, and he set the KBO record for most career at-bats before his first homer with 1,545 (broken by Yong-ho Cho in 2022). Kang then played 124 games with a .260/.341/.283 batting line in 2021, and he had a impressive .323/.375/.398 batting line in 2022. He even had a .400 batting average in September, and he was expected to get the starting third baseman spot in 2023. However, he slumped to .217/.282/.269 in 2023, and he went 2-for-21 in 2024.

Sources

• Namu wiki