2024 is the year of Kim Do-young, and he won the best hitter award! Won Tae-in of the Pitcher Award, Kim Taek-yeon of the Rookie Award, and Son Ho-young of the Willing Effort Award
2024 is the year of Kim Do-young, and he won the best hitter award! Won Tae-in of the Pitcher Award, Kim Taek-yeon of the Rookie Award, and Son Ho-young of the Willing Effort Award
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Ilguhoe (Chairman Kim Kwang-soo), a Korean professional baseball OB group, held a selection committee to select the winners of the "2024 Nutridi Day Ilgu Award" and selected the winners in nine categories following the Ilgu Grand Prize (President Heo Gu-yeon).
KIA Kim Do-young was selected as the best hitter award to the best player this year, and Samsung's Won Tae-in was honored with the best pitcher award.
Kim dominated this season by displaying outstanding performance in all areas where he hit 30 (homer) to 30 (homer) with the youngest and smallest number of games. He played in 141 games and posted a batting average of 0.347, 38 homers, 109 RBIs, 143 runs, and 40 steals. Notably, his 143 runs was the most in a single season. Thanks to his performance, KIA won the Korean Series after ranking first in this season. He also recorded the on-base plus slugging percentage (OPS) of 1.503 including three homers in the Premier 12, continuing his performance as a batter representing Korea in international competitions.
In 28 games, Won pitched 159.2 innings, posting 15 wins, 6 losses and an earned run average of 3.66. He also became the king of multiple wins along with Kwak Bin of the Doosan Bears, and ranked first in WHIP (1.20), which indicates earned run average and on-base allowed rate per inning among Korean pitchers. In addition, he pitched more than 150 innings for the fourth consecutive year, displaying his stellar performance as an inning player.
The Rookie of the Year award went to Kim Taek-yeon of the Doosan Bears and Son Ho-young of the Lotte Marines for the Willing Effort Award. Kim finished her team's first year since debut, recording a record of 3 wins, 2 losses and 19 saves with a 2.08 ERA in 65 appearances. In particular, her 19 saves was the most by a high school graduate, surpassing Lotte's Na Seung-hyun's record of 16 saves in 2006.
After being traded to Lotte early this season, Son took the entire infield position and displayed stellar performance. He played in 102 games with a batting average of 0.317, 18 homers, 78 RBIs, 70 runs scored, and 0.892 OPS. Unfortunately, he failed to meet the record of consecutive hits in consecutive games, but he garnered hits in 30 consecutive games. Nevertheless, he failed to display talents due to injuries every year, but his tireless efforts paid off.
Kia's batting coach Hong Se-wan won the Professional Leadership Award, while Dongjak Elementary School's coach Kim Sung-hoon won the Ama Leader Award. As the batting coach for this year, Hong has turned KIA into the best core batting line in the league. KIA's batting average (0.301), on-base percentage (0.459), slugging percentage (0.369), and OPS (0.828) all ranked first in the batting average (0.301), while homers (163) ranked third after Samsung and NC.
Kim Sung-hoon has been in charge of the team since 2005 and has been striving to nurture outstanding players. Notably, he won three gold medals in national competitions last year and topped three competitions this year as well. He also won the "Kim Il-bae Leader Award" last year and was named the coach of the U-12 national team this year.
Hanwha's marketing team was selected as the front prize. Hanwha ranked eighth in the team's performance, but sold out a whopping 47 times in 71 home games. With this momentum, the team has become the first team to surpass 800,000 spectators. Regardless of the team's performance, the team's enthusiasm for baseball was definitely the result of the marketing team's usual efforts. Judge Lee Ki-jung received the award. Judge Lee has been a professional baseball umpire since 2003. He is recognized as a valuable player who is passionate and has made efforts to make correct decisions.
Kim Jae-chul, president of the Gyeonggi Baseball Softball Association, was then selected as the winner of the Special Achievement Award. Chairman Kim is also contributing to revitalizing the independent league, which gives baseball players a chance to try again while making efforts to expand baseball infrastructure in Gyeonggi Province. 토토사이트
The "2024 Nutritional Day Ilgu Award" ceremony will be held at Versailles Hall on the 3rd floor of the Rivera Hotel in Seoul from 11 a.m. on December 10 (Tuesday) and will be broadcast live across the country through the GOLF&PBA channel, new media platforms Naver, IB SPORTS YouTube channel, and Kakao TV.