Jae-young Park

Jae-young Park (박재용)

• Bats Left, Throws Left
• Height 5' 9", Weight 191 lb.

• School Dankook University
• High School Shinil High School

• Born June 16, 1969 in Seoul South Korea

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Biographical Information

Jae-young Park played in the Korea Baseball Organization for 7 years.

Park played for South Korea in the 1993 Intercontinental Cup, batting .333/.480/.389 with 3 steals in 3 tries. He split left with Young-woo Lee. He was two steals behind co-leaders Tatsuya Ide and Toshihisa Nishi. The Haitai Tigers selected him in the third round of the 1994 KBO draft, and he hit .259/.278/.315 in 72 games in his first season. Park then recorded a .284/.375/.408 batting line in 1995, and he batted .246/.316/.339 with 4 homers in 1996. He won the KBO Gold Glove (an award for overall excellence, not just for defense) as a designated hitter in 1996, and he won it again with a .245/.318/.367 batting line and 7 homers in 1997. Park slumped to .220/.284/.354 in 1998, then the Tigers traded him with Koo-hong Song to the Ssangbangwool Raiders for Kye-won Park and Bong-ok Oh. Park hit .233/.298/.324 in 1999, but he went 2-for-11 in 2000 then he retired. He coached Shinil High School in 2007, Gwangju Jinheung High School in 2009 and Hanmin University from 2010 to 2011. Park was also a minor league coach for the KIA Tigers from 2014 to 2018 and Lotte Giants in 2019.

Overall, Park hit .246/.312/.348 with 385 hits and 23 homers in 7 seasons in the KBO.

Sources

• Old IBAF site
• Namu Wiki