Kyung-hyun Shin
Kyung-hyun Shin (신경현)
- Bats Right, Throws Right
- Height 6' 1", Weight 209 lb.
- School Dongguk University
- High School Gunsan Commercial High School
- Born November 28, 1975 in Gunsan South Korea (Korean Wikipedia lists 12/30, but the BR Register, old IBAF site and the KBO all list 11/28)
Biographical Information[edit]
Kyung-hyun Shin played for the South Korean national team and in the Korea Baseball Organization. His son Jee-hoo Shin followed him to the KBO. [1]
Kyung-hyun Shin was South Korea's #3 catcher in the 1995 Intercontinental Cup, behind Kab-yong Jin and In-sung Cho. He was 1 for 6 with 5 walks, 3 runs and 2 RBI; his one hit was a homer so he had a 1167 OPS despite a .167 average. His homer came against Nicaragua (possibly against Orlando Cuevas). [2] He won Gold with South Korea in the 1997 Asian Championship. [3] The Hanwha Eagles picked him in the second round of the 1998 KBO draft. [4]
He was 0 for 7 with a walk in 1998, and had the same numbers in 1999. He hit .155/.211/.268 in 77 plate appearances in 2000 and .325/.400/.450 in 45 times up in 2001 then missed time due to mandatory military service. Returning to action in 2004, he became a regular and batted .274/.329/.383, followed by .277/.338/.368 in 2005. He produced at a .243/.308/.305 clip in 2006, the season Hyun-jin Ryu broke in; Ryu would praise Shin's great game-calling. [5] He hit .250/.298/.308 in 2007, .267/.328/.372 in 2008, .256/.356/.313 in 2009 and .249/.318/.419 with a career-high 10 homers in 253 plate appearances in 2010.
Shin hit .266/.335/.318 and fielded .995 in 2011 then slipped to .181/.253/.181 in 2012, still Hanwha's most-used catcher by a little. He retired with a .252/.317/.337 batting line in 976 KBO games, scoring 236 runs and driving in 224. He coached for the team from 2014-2017. [6]
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