In-ho Son

In-ho Son (손인호)

• Bats Left, Throws Left
• Height 5' 10", Weight 202 lb.

• School Korea University
• High School Kyungnam High School

• Born April 3, 1975 in Busan South Korea

BR register page

Biographical Information

In-ho Son played in the Korea Baseball Organization for 13 years.

Son played for South Korea in the 1995 Intercontinental Cup. He was 3-for-13 with a run and a RBI and had seven putouts in center, where he backed up Kyung-hwan Cho. The Lotte Giants selected him in the first round of the 1998 KBO draft, and he hit .278/.356/.404 in 79 games in his first season. Son batted .269/.331/.380 in 1999, and he played 106 games with a .274/.325/.379 batting line in 2000. He then missed the next two seasons due to military service, and he returned in 2003 with a .278/.340/.389 batting line. Son crushed 5 homers with a .284/.382/.382 batting line in 2004, then he slumped to .241/.312/.322 in 2005.

After hitting .216/.296/.281 in 80 games in 2006, the Giants traded Son with Seok-jin Park to the LG Twins for Man-ho Choi and Kil-sung Choi. Son batted .216/.280/.307 in 2007, then he hit .267/.320/.319 in 2008. He struggled again in 2009 as his batting line was .226/.294/.286, and he played 42 games with a .323/.362/.484 batting line in 2010. Son only played 27 games combined in the next two years, and he announced his retirement after the 2012 season.

He later became the assistant batting coach for the LG Twins from 2014 to 2017, and he was their minor league batting coach in 2018. The Giants named Son their batting coach in 2019, and he coached Busan Information High School from 2022 to 2023. He became an assistant coach for Kyungsung University in 2024

Overall, Son hit .263/.333/.360 with 593 hits and 24 homers in 13 seasons in the KBO.

Sources

• Namu Wiki