The opening of the 2023 Shinhan Bank SOL KBO league is now just a day away.
The long-awaited KBO League opening game will be held on April 1 at 2:00 PM in Jamsil (Lotte-Doosan), Gocheok (Hanwha-Kiwoom), Incheon (KIA-SSG), Suwon (LG-KT), and Daegu (NC-Samsung). .
As the KBO League, which celebrated its 40th anniversary last year, is taking its first step toward the next 40 years, expectations are high for new records to be written.
Attention is focusing on whether a new protagonist with the most RBIs and points in the KBO League will be born beyond Lee Seung-yeop of ‘Lion King’. KIA Choi Hyeong-woo has 39 RBIs on the 1500 RBI mark. If Choi Hyeong-woo achieves that record, he will surpass Lee Seung-yeop (former Samsung)’s current Doosan Bears head coach’s record of 1498 RBIs and become the league’s all-time leader in RBIs.
The record for the most doubles is also in sight. Up to the previous record of 464 (former Samsung Lee Seung-yeop), only one double was left. From the second double that Hyung-Woo Choi will make in the future, it will be reflected as the record for the most doubles in the KBO League.
SSG Choi Jeong-eun, who is currently recording 1274 points, will secure second place in total scoring, surpassing Yang Jun-hyeok (former Samsung, 1299 points), if she adds 26 points this season. If Choi Jeong shows the same scoring pace this year as last year, it is expected that he will surpass Lee Seung-yeop’s record of 1355 points and rise to the top spot in the league’s career in that category.
LG veteran Jin Hae-soo challenges the league record for the most individual holds. If Jin Hae-soo, who recorded 150 holds until last season, adds 28 holds this season, he will surpass previous record holder An Ji-man (ex-Samsung, 177 holds) and win the title with the most holds in his personal career.
Samsung Oh Seung-hwan is expected to continue fighting with himself this year as well. Oh Seung-hwan, who already holds the record for the most saves in the KBO League, has 30 saves to reach 400 in his personal career. Attention is focusing on whether Oh Seung-hwan, who has won the most saves award (six times) in his career and has established himself as the ‘final boss’, will be able to set another record.
Hanwha Jung Woo-ram is also planning to rewrite his record. Jung Woo-ram, who currently holds the record for the most appearances with 952 business trips, left only 48 games in the league’s first 1,000 business trips.
SSG Kim Kwang-hyun has only one win left to his personal career of 150 wins. Kim Gwang-hyun, who has played in 326 games so far, will get the title of ‘at least 150 wins’ if he wins within 21 games. The previous record of winning at least 150 games was 347 held by Jeong Min-cheol (former Hanwha). A total of four pitchers have recorded 150 wins in the KBO league, from Song Jin-woo (former Hanwha) in the 2002 season to Yang Hyeon-jong (KIA) in the 2022 season. Kim Gwang-hyun’s first win this season will go down in history as the fifth 150-win pitcher in the league.
Players born in the Year of the Rabbit in 1999, celebrating the Year of the Rabbit, are also attracting attention. LG Jung Woo-young, who ranked 3rd in the most holds in a single season with 35 holds last season, is on the verge of achieving 100 holds in his personal career. If Jung Woo-young adds two holds, he will win the youngest title by about two years ahead of Hanwha Jung Woo-ram (25 years, 11 months, 17 days), the youngest holder of the 100-hold record.
Jeong Cheol-won (Doosan), who recorded the most holds in his debut season and won the Rookie of the Year, and Ahn Woo-jin (Kiwoom), who won the 2022 KBO Golden Glove, were also born in 1999. It is worth looking forward to what kind of records the two players, who are in charge of the team’s winning team and starting pitcher, will set the foundation for this year.
The momentum of players born in 1987, who are the same age as the age group, is also formidable. Kiwoom Won Jong-hyun challenges to play 50 games in 8 consecutive seasons for the 4th time in his career. Lotte Cha Woo-chan is also aiming for the 7th place in his personal career with 87 strikeouts and 1,500 strikeouts.
Attention is focusing on who will record the 10,000th save in the KBO league. As of the 31st, a total of 574 players in the KBO league recorded 9684 saves.메이저놀이터 The number remaining until the 10,000th save in the league is 299. The player who records the 299th save across 10 clubs this season becomes the holder of a unique record to achieve 10,000 saves in the KBO league.