Lee Seung-yeop, Lee Dae-ho, Kim Tae-kyun, and Park Byung-ho, who were overflowing, were skinny, so I took them out altogether

Oct 13, 2025

Sportschosun DB

How can you play baseball without the first baseman...

KBO confirmed and announced the K-BASEALL SERIES national team list confirmed by the Korea Power Reinforcement Committee on the 12th.A total of 35 players will be wearing the Taegeuk mark. K-BASEBALL SERIES will play two games against the Czech national team at Gocheok Sky Dome from November 8th to 9th and two games against the Japanese national team at Tokyo Dome, Japan from November 15th to 16th.

Looking at the list, 17 fielders were selected, and the infield selection is interesting.

Kim Young-woong (Samsung), Moon Bo-kyung, Shin Min-jae (LG), Park Sung-han (SSG), Kim Joo-won (NC), Noh Si-hwan (Hanwha), Song Sung-moon (Kium) and Han Dong-hee (Sangmu) were selected as infield resources.

The reason why it's interesting is that there's no first baseman. Many teams use foreign hitters as first baseman, but they can't even take first-base mercenaries to the national team. However, the fact that there is no player worthy of a professional first baseman shows the current situation in the KBO League. This means that there are no native big guns that will succeed Lee Seung-yeop, Lee Dae-ho, Kim Tae-kyun, and Park Byung-ho. In their heyday, one of the coach's biggest concerns was who should leave the national team's first baseman to. It was a very difficult task to configure the power and protect the pride of the players.

A game between Samsung and Doosan held at Jamsil Baseball Stadium on the 27th, President Hu Jie-yeon and baseball team coach Ryu Ji-hyun, coach Kang In-kwon and Kim Won-hyung, and chairman of the Korea Electric Power Reinforcement Committee Cho Gye-hyun. Jamsil= Reporter's wook@sportschosun.com/2025.08.27/

Kang Baek-ho (KT) was excluded from this national team among the players who could be selected as the first baseman. Still, you have to play baseball. There are only five third basemen. First of all, shortstop Park Sung-han and Kim Joo-won are two-top players. While Shin Min-jae is guarding the second base, Song Seong-moon among the third baseman resources can also cover the second base, so there is no problem. In the end, one of Kim Young-woong, Moon Bo-kyung, Noh Si-hwan and Han Dong-hee has to go to first base, but there is no big worry because Moon Bo-kyung is there. While other players do not have much first base experience, Moon Bo-kyung has a lot of experience playing as first base even during the regular season. He also plays defense on first base without any major problems. Noh Si-hwan also went to the foreground as third base in Hanwha, but he has experience in taking first base in the national team.

A game between the LG Twins and the Doosan Bears at Jamsil Stadium on the 30th. LG third baseman Moon Bo-kyung is defending. Jamsil = Reporter Park Jae-man pjm@sportschosun.com /2025.09.30/

Manager Ryu Ji-hyun said, "Since the first base defense is less important in other positions, it seems that he focused on the bat and selected players rather than putting other players to defend, but Moon Bo-kyung was at the center of it. I think it was a decision that I could make because I know Moon Bo-kyung's defense capability since I was a manager of LG.

Even if Lee Jung-hoo (San Francisco), Kim Ha-sung (Atlanta), and Kim Hye-sung (LA Dodgers) are called up as many foreign players as possible to represent Korea at next year's World Baseball Classic (WBC), the resources to take the first base are not particularly noticeable.

I wonder how coach Ryu will solve this problem in the future.

This article was translated by Naver AI translator.