What is the more valuable new record? 17 consecutive wins vs 50 home runs and 150 RBIs. MVP will be determined here

Oct 06, 2025

What is the more valuable new record? 17 consecutive wins vs 50 home runs and 150 RBIs. MVP will be determined here
Samsung-Hanwha match held at Hanwha Life Ball Park in Daejeon on the 29th. 1st base with no outs in the top of the 3rd inning. Diaz is hitting a two-run shot. Daejeon = Reporter Jeong Jae-geun cjg@sportschosun.com /2025.8.29/



What is the more valuable new record? 17 consecutive wins vs 50 home runs and 150 RBIs. MVP will be determined here
The game between the Hanwha Eagles and the Kiwoom Heroes at Hanwha Life Ball Park in Daejeon on the 13th. Hanwha Ponce is smiling. Daejeon = Reporter Park Jae-man pjm@sportschosun.com /2025.09.13/
KBO confirmed the MVP and rookie nominees for the 2025 season on the 5th.

The candidates for MVP and Rookie of the Year were selected by the KBO and the Korea Baseball Press Association, and voting will be held from October 5, the day after the end of the regular season. The KBO MVP, Rookie of the Year award and the newly established head coach award will be held under a multi-voting system in which the player (manager) who received the most votes from the press corps is selected as the winner.

Eighteen MVP candidates with the best performance this season were selected as title holders by league category and excellent performances. Eight pitchers Won Tae-in (Samsung), Furado (Samsung), Park Young-hyun (KT), Noh Kyung-eun (SSG), Anderson (SSG), Weiss (Hanwha), Ponce (Hanwha), Riley (NC), and 10 fielders Choi Hyung-woo (KIA), Koo Ja-wook (Samsung), Kim Sung-yoon (Samsung), Diaz (Samsung), Park Hae-min (LG), Yang Eui-ji (Doosan), Ahn Hyun-min (KT), Reyes (Lotte), Noh Si-hwan (Hanwha), and Song Sung-moon (Kium) will compete.




The MVP is Ponce and Diaz in a two-way race.

The rookie award is also a two-way race between Ahn Hyun-min (KT) and Song Seung-ki (LG), but it is not as dark as the MVP.

Ponce dominated the pitching category, and Diaz dominated the batting category. It is not easy to distinguish the superiority and inferiority.
What is the more valuable new record? 17 consecutive wins vs 50 home runs and 150 RBIs. MVP will be determined here
In the game between NC and Hanwha at Hanwha Life Ball Park in Daejeon on the 3rd, Hanwha Ponce, with two outs and runners on the 1st and 2nd bases, struck out NC Chun Jae-hwan in the top of the 5th inning, recording 226 strikeouts in a single season. The electronic display shows the contents of Ponce's record. Daejeon = Reporter's book@sportschosun.com/2025.09.03/
Ponce is the star of his team's Hanwha sensation. He dominated the mound this season with four wins with multiple wins and a strikeout rate.

He recorded 17 wins and 1 loss in 180 ⅔ innings in 29 games, 1.89 ERA, 252 strikeouts, 0.944 winning percentage, 0.94 WHIP, and 20 quality starts (joint third).

Until the early and mid-season, Ponce was overwhelming. There seemed to be no competitor. He made a strong impression with a new record of 17 consecutive wins since the opening.

However, it was not very good at the end of the season, which is a close memory. In September, he recorded an ordinary record of one win and one loss and 3.52 ERA in four games. Seventeen consecutive wins were also stopped, and he couldn't even step on the symbol of the top pitcher's 20 wins because he was taking a break. Many wins were also caught by NC Riley and finished the season tied for first place. The No. 1 strikeout was also almost lost to SSG Anderson, who succeeded in turning the tables on the last game of the season against SSG on the 1st.
What is the more valuable new record? 17 consecutive wins vs 50 home runs and 150 RBIs. MVP will be determined here
The KIA-Samsung match at Lions Park in Daegu on the 30th. In the bottom of the first inning, Diaz hit a three-run shot with one out and runners on the first and third bases, achieving 50 home runs. There is a celebratory video on the electronic display. Daegu = Reporter Jung Jae-geun cjg@sportschosun.com /2025.9.30/
The value of Diaz is by far in the unanswered '50-150'.

He reached the 50-homer and 150-run mark, which seemed close to impossible, by running the foreground. It is the first record in the 44-year history of the KBO.

The first 50 home runs by a foreigner are also worth it, but the symbol of the team's contribution is 158 RBIs, the most in a KBO league season. The previous record was 146 RBIs set by teammate Park Byung-ho in 2015. Not only did he hit a lot of home runs, but there were many valuable home runs at a critical moment. In multi-hit games, the batting average of scoring in 50 games is as high as 0.352. On the other hand, there were only 100 strikeouts.

With a batting average of 0.314 in 144 games, 50 homers, 158 RBIs, an on-base percentage of 0.381, and a slugging percentage of 0.644, the OPS reaches 1.025. OPS and Ruta, who won three home run RBI slugging percentage, are also ranked first. With Diaz's consistent performance until the end of the season, Samsung succeeded in entering fall baseball for the second consecutive year in fourth place.

A fierce competition with Ponce is expected depending on how the close memory of setting the milestone of '50 Home Runs-150 RBIs' at the end of the season will affect votes and give value to them.

The postseason is irrelevant to the regular season MVP vote, but the possibility that Diaz's performance in the wild card game against the NC Dinos, which starts in Daegu on the 6th, will affect votes cannot be ruled out.





This article was translated by Naver AI translator.