Sung-bo Shim

Sung-bo Shim (심성보)

• Bats Left, Throws Left
• Height 5' 10", Weight 165 lb.

• School Dankook University
• High School Bugil Academy

• Born February 16, 1973 in Dangjin South Korea

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Biographical Information

Sung-bo Shim played in the Korea Baseball Organization for 9 years.

Shim played for South Korea in the 1991 Intercontinental Cup and 1991 Asian Championship. In the 1991 Cup, he hit .424/.457/.697 with 11 RBI in 9 games, homering off the USSR's Vitali Romanov and Italian national team hurler Claudio Taglienti. He tied Xavier Civit for 5th in the tourney in RBI, was 5th in average (trailing Yuichi Yomoda, Jung-min Seo, Shinichi Sato and Carlos Manriquez) and homers (tied for 4th, behind José Ramon Padilla, Luis Casanova and Seo. He did not make the tourney All-Star at either 1B (which went to Yomoda) or the outfield (which went to Sato, Manriquez and José Estrada).

The Ssangbangwool Raiders selected him in the first round of the 1995 KBO draft, and he hit .234/.275/.352 in 112 games in his first season. Shim then played 116 games with a .275/.345/.421 batting line in 1996, and he crushed 15 homers with a .269/.326/.459 batting line in 1997. He was 9th in RBI in 1997, between Jong-beom Lee and Kyoung-bae Chung. Shim had his career year in 1998, and he crushed 24 homers with a .269/.324/.495 batting line. He was 7th in RBI (between Dong-joo Kim and Jae-hong Park), 5th in triples (tied with Byung-Kyu Lee and Seok-chun Kang) and 7th in homers (tied with Dong-joo Kim). He also set the KBO record by collecting 20 assists as an outfielder.

However, Shim suffered from diabetes in 1999, and he only played 59 games with a .261/.328/.420 batting line. He was 7-for-46 in 2000, then he was released. The LG Twins picked him up, and Shim batted .279/.332/.356 in 97 games in 2001. He recorded a .215/.282/.315 batting line in 2002, and the Twins released him in the middle of the 2003 season. The Samsung Lions then signed him, and he ended up hitting .216/.297/.316 in the 2003 season then he retired.

Overall, Shim hit .257/.316/.413 with 547 hits and 63 homers in 9 seasons in the KBO.

Sources

• Defunct IBAF site
• Namu Wiki