Si-hwan Roh

Si-hwan Roh (노시환)

• Bats Left, Throws Right
• Height 6' 0", Weight 211 lb.

• High School Kyungnam High School

• Born December 3, 2000 in Ulsan South Korea

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Biographical Information

Si-hwan Roh has played in the KBO.

Roh played for South Korea in the 2018 U-18 Asian Championship, then was taken by the Hanwha Hawks in the first round of the second phase in the 2017 KBO draft. He struggled in his rookie year, only hitting .186/.241/.260 with one homer in 91 games. Roh improved to .220/.298/.387 with 12 homers in 2020, and became the first player who was born after 2000 to blast 10 homers in a season. The young slugger hit .271/.387/.466 in 2021, but slumped to .281/.355/.383 with 6 homers in 2022.

The Ulsan native broke out and became one of the most outstanding sluggers in the KBO in 2023. He was selected into the 2023 KBO All-Star Game, but only went 0-for-4, with a strikeout against Won-jung Kim. He ended hitting .298/.388/.541 with 31 homers, and became the first player born after 2000 to hit 30 homers in a season. He led the league in homers, OPS+ and RBI despite missing nearly a month due to 2023 Asian Games; heranked 8th in hits (34 behind Ah-seop Son), 8th in doubles (7 behind Ja-wook Koo), 2nd in slugging (.007 behind Jeong Choi) and 7th in runs scored (24 behind Chang-ki Hong).

Roh represented Korea in two important events - 2022 Asian Games (held in '23 due to delays from COVID-19) and 2023 Asia Professional Baseball Championship - in this year. In the Asian Games, he debuted against Hong Kong and hit a RBI single off Alexander Cheuk-Hei Chan in the 8th inning while drawing three walks. He then went 1-for-3 with a walk against Chinese Taipei, and was 2-for-2 with 2 RBI against Thailand. Roh drove in both runs for Korea versus Japan - a sacrifice fly against Shuichiro Kayo and a RBI single against Katsutoshi Satake to help them advance to the Gold Medal Game. He then went 2-for-3 with a RBI sacrifice fly against Ningji Li of China. In the Gold Medal Game, he was 0-for-3 with a walk against Chih-Jung Liu; South Korea beat Chinese Taipei and won the Gold, earning him exemption from military service. He handled 5 chances error-free at third, led the event in RBI with 6 (tied with YongKang Kou, Dong-hee Yoon and Bo-Gyeong Moon), ranked 8th in hits (3 behind Ji-hoon Choi) and 5th in doubles (2 behind Yoon). In the Asia Professional Baseball Championship, Roh was 3-for-5 with a clutch walk-off RBI single against Daniel McGrath of Australia in the opener, then went 1-for-4 with a single against Chihiro Sumida of Japan. He was 1-for-4 with a RBI single against Chinese Taipei's Yen-Cheng Wang and helped them advance to Gold Medal Game, then was 2-for-5, with a two-run double against Tatsuya Imai in the Gold Medal Game. The South Korean squad was beaten by Japan due to Makoto Kadowaki's walk-off single. He was also named as the first baseman on the All-Tournament Team.