Sang-kug Kim

Sang-kug Kim (김상국)

• Bats Right, Throws Right

• School Hanyang University
• High School Bugil Academy

• Born April 5, 1963 in Cheonan South Korea

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Biographical Information

Sang-kug Kim played in the Korea Baseball Organization for 12 years. His son Dong-yub Kim played in the minors and KBO.

Kim played for South Korea in the 1981 World Junior Championship and 1985 Intercontinental Cup. The Binggrae Eagles selected him in the first round of the 1986 KBO draft, and he hit .268/.346/.370 in 97 games in his first season. He then recorded a .256/.303/.336 batting line in 1987, and his batting line was .235/.305/.371 in 1988. Kim hit .259/.332/.431 in 1989, then he crushed a career-high 10 homers with a .287/.383/.430 batting line in 1990. He extended his stable performance as he hit .269/.342/.427 in 1991, and he blasted 9 homers with a .268/.335/.407 batting line in 1992.

The Cheonan native slumped to .197/.270/.242 in 1993, and he bounced back with a .256/.347/.357 batting line in 1994. After hitting .227/.303/.328 in 1995, the Eagles traded him to the Hyundai Unicorns for Eun-jin Park. Kim played 67 games with a .212/.216/.294 batting line in 1996, then he went 11-for-58 in 1997. He announced his retirement after the 1997 season, and he coached Bugil Academy from 2002 to 2004.

Overall, Kim hit .253/.328/.367 with 673 hits and 57 homers in 12 seasons in the KBO.

Sources

• Namu Wiki