Park Dong-won is trying alone. Will Yang Eui-ji and Kang Min-ho break this year. I don't know. Come on

Jul 29, 2025

Park Dong-won is trying alone. Will Yang Eui-ji and Kang Min-ho break this year. I don't know. Come on
Doosan Yang Eui-ji, LG Park Dong-won, Samsung Kang Min-ho (from left) Sports Chosun DB



Park Dong-won is trying alone. Will Yang Eui-ji and Kang Min-ho break this year. I don't know. Come on
A game between Doosan and LG at Jamsil Stadium on the 26th. Doosan Yang Eui-ji hit a timely RBI single in the bottom of the seventh inning. Jamsil = Song Jeong-heon Reporter's songs@sportschosun.com/2025.07.26/
Park Dong-won is trying alone. Will Yang Eui-ji and Kang Min-ho break this year. I don't know. Come on
In the game between Samsung and Doosan at Jamsil Baseball Stadium on the 3rd, Samsung won 6-4 with Lee Jae-hyun's come-from-behind grand slam in the 9th inning. Lee Ho-sung and Kang Min-ho battery performing a ceremony after the game. Jamsil= Reporter's wook@sportschosun.com/2025.07.03/
Will the era of the Yanggang continue this year.

Yang Eui-ji of the Doosan Bears and Kang Min-ho of the Samsung Lions have divided the Golden Glove catcher division for 14 years from 2011 to last year. Kang Min-ho received a total of six Golden Gloves, including 2011, 12, 13, 17, 21 and 24, and Yang Eui-ji won a total of eight Golden Gloves, including 15, 16, 18, 19, 20, 22 and 23 years starting in 2014.

Other catchers tried but failed repeatedly. Recently, LG Twins' Park Dong-won went out to break down the two-gang system, but he couldn't overcome it in the end. In 2023, he recorded 20 home runs and 73 RBIs and even had the title of 「Winning Catcher」, but he remained in second place by a wide margin of 213 to 63 against Yang Eui-ji, who had a batting average of 300, and the opportunity seemed to have come as Yang Eui-ji was not nominated last year due to lack of innings in catcher, but Kang Min-ho received 191 votes and Park Dong-won only 89 votes, failing to win another prize.




Yang Eui-ji's Kang Min-ho and Park Dong-won are the most prominent catchers so far this year.

Yang Eui-ji is batting .37 (100 hits in 326 at-bats) with 14 homers and 62 RBIs in 93 games, while Kang Min-ho has a batting average of .279 (78 hits in 280 at-bats) with nine homers and 53 RBIs in 84 games. Park Dong-won played in 93 games and had a batting average of 271 (81 hits in 299 at-bats) with 17 homers and 53 RBIs.

Hanwha Choi Jae-hoon has a batting average of .302 (54 hits in 179 at-bats) with one home run and 21 RBIs, while Lotte Yoo Kang-nam has .271 (54 hits in 199 at-bats) with four home runs and 28 RBIs, but it is less than these three.




Park Dong-won is trying alone. Will Yang Eui-ji and Kang Min-ho break this year. I don't know. Come on
LG Park Dong-won, who won the MVP in the 2025 KBO All-Star Game held at Hanwha Life Ball Park in Daejeon on the 12th, poses in front of an injured electric vehicle. Daejeon = Song Jeong-heon Reporter's songs@sportschosun.com/2025.07.12/
Park Dong-won is trying alone. Will Yang Eui-ji and Kang Min-ho break this year. I don't know. Come on
The 2024 KBO Golden Glove Awards ceremony was held at the COEX Auditorium in Samseong-dong, Seoul on the afternoon of the 13th. Kang Min-ho won the Golden Glove in the catcher category. Kang Min-ho is being congratulated by Park Dong-won. Samseong-dong = Song Jeong-heon Reporter's songs@sportschosun.com/2024.12.13/
In the end, Park Dong-won seems to be challenging Yang Eui-ji's Kang Min-ho for this season's Golden Glove.

Yang Eui-ji has the best batting performance. He is the only one with a batting average exceeding 300, and has a good RBI. Yang Eui-ji, who has won a total of nine awards as a designated hitter in 2021, will fill 10 if he receives it this year. This would set Lee Seung-yeop's record of winning the most awards ever.

Park Dong-won is appealing as a catcher with long-shot power while trying to hit 20 home runs for the third consecutive year. He played 610 ⅔ innings, the most among the three. Kang Min-ho sat for 593 ⅓ innings, and Yang Eui-ji played 531 ⅓ innings. Kang Min-ho, who is wearing a catcher mask even at the age of 40, is not an exceptional performance compared to Yang Eui-ji and Park Dong-won, but he shows his unique clutch ability of a veteran who is consistent and hits the moment he needs to.




Is it Yang Eui-ji's second 10th award. Will Park Dong-won end the era of "Yanggang" with his first win since his debut. Will Kang Min-ho prove that he can play as a catcher even at the age of 40. History is being prepared in the Golden Glove catcher category this year.





This article was translated by Naver AI translator.