Tae-yang Lee (02)

Tae-yang Lee (이태양)

• Bats Left, Throws Right
• Height 6' 4", Weight 213 lb.

• High School Suncheon Hyocheon High School

• Born July 3, 1990 in Yeosu South Korea

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Biographical Information

Tae-yang Lee has won Gold with the South Korean national team and pitched in the Korea Baseball Organization.

Lee was a 5th-round pick of the Hanwha Eagles in the 2010 KBO draft. He did not make his debut in the KBO until 2012, beaten to that mark by a younger pitcher also named Tae-yang Lee. He allowed five hits and three runs in two innings in '12. He was 0-3 with a 6.23 ERA in 31 games (5 starts) in 2013. He was a regular in the rotation in 2014 and went 7-10 with a 5.29 ERA. He tied Cory Riordan and Shane Youman for 6th in the league in losses.

Despite his so-so track record to that point, the big hurler made the Korean squad for the 2014 Asian Games. He showed the team's choice was a good one as he went 1-0 with only one hit in five shutout innings (0 BB, 5 K) as the team's most-effective hurler. They won the Gold and he earned an exemption from South Korea's otherwise-mandatory military service as a result. He then had Tommy John surgery and missed all of '15 while the other Tae-yang Lee made South Korea's national team that year.

The Yeosu native returned to the diamond in 2016 and posted a 5-8, 4.97 record. He fell to 3-6, 7.17 in 2017. Moving to the bullpen, he rebounded in 2018 (4-2, 2.84, 85 K in 79 1/3 IP). He was 1-6 with a 5.81 ERA in 2019.

Sources

• KBO player page
• 2014 Asian Games website
• Korean Wikipedia