Young-tae Park

Young-tae Park (박영태)

• Bats Right, Throws Right
• Height 6' 0", Weight 198 lb.

• School Dong-A University
• High School Masan Commercial High School

• Born August 25, 1959 in Masan South Korea

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Biographical Information

Young-tae Park played in the Korea Baseball Organization for 10 years.

Park played for South Korea in the 1982 Amateur World Series, helping them win their first global baseball title. He caught the last out of the game - an infield flyball hit by Ekuo Nakaya of Japan. The Lotte Giants selected him in the first round of the 1983 KBO draft, and he hit .145/.194/.162 in 66 games in his first season. Park improved to .248/.304/.287 in 1984, then he crushed 2 homers with a .269/.329/.356 batting line in 1985. Those homers were the only homers in his entire career. Park slumped to .202/.282/.253 in 1986, and he only played 24 games with a 10-for-47 record in 1987.

The Masan native had a .221/.282/.298 batting line in 1988, and he went 6-for-31 in 1989. Park then hit .251/.306/.270 in 1990, but he struggled again in 1991 as his batting line was .179/.240/.214. He played 74 games with a .258/.329/.349 batting line in 1992, then he announced his retirement. Park was the fielding coach of the Giants from 1993 to 2003 and their bench coach from 2004 to 2010. He then became the fielding coach of the NC Dinos from 2011 to 2012, and he was the fielding coach of the Hanwha Eagles from 2015 to 2016 and for their minor league team in 2017. The Gangneung Yeongdong University named him their new coach in 2019.

Overall, Park hit .227/.289/.277 with 305 hits and 2 homers in 10 seasons in the KBO.

Sources

• Namu Wiki