Kim Tae-hyoung | |
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Lotte Giants – No. 88 | |
Catcher / Manager | |
Born: Seongbuk-gu, Seoul, South Korea | September 12, 1967|
Batted: Right Threw: Right | |
KBO debut | |
April 9, 1990, for the OB Bears | |
Last appearance | |
2001, for the Doosan Bears | |
KBO statistics | |
Batting average | .235 |
Hits | 432 |
Home runs | 9 |
RBI | 157 |
Teams | |
As player
As coach
As manager
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Career highlights and awards | |
As player
As manager
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Kim Tae-hyoung | |
Hangul | 김태형 |
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Hanja | 金太亨 |
Revised Romanization | Gim Tae-hyeong |
McCune–Reischauer | Kim T'ae-hyŏng |
Kim Tae-hyoung (Korean: 김태형; born September 12, 1967) is a South Korean professional baseball manager and former player. As manager of the Doosan Bears, he led the team into seven consecutive Korean Series appearances between 2015 and 2021, and won the championship on three occasions.[1]
Kim played as catcher for the fourth-placed South Korean national team in the 1988 Summer Olympics. He spent twelve seasons in the KBO League, from 1990 to 2001, all for the Bears. After his retirement, he stayed on as a coach for the Bears for an additional eleven seasons. After three seasons coaching the SK Wyverns, Kim was brought back to the Bears, this time as the team's manager, in 2015.