50 Home Run Diaz 95.9% of the vote, GG over Austin, winner for second consecutive year
The KBO Golden Glove Awards ceremony was held at Lotte Hotel World in Seoul on the 9th. Samsung Diaz won the Golden Glove in the first baseman category. Samsung's Koo Ja-wook, who is receiving a proxy award. Jamsil = Song Jeong-heon Reporter's songs@sportschosun.com/2025.12.09/
The KBO Golden Glove Awards ceremony was held at Lotte Hotel World in Seoul on the 9th. Samsung Diaz won the Golden Glove in the first baseman category. Samsung's Koo Ja-wook, who is receiving a proxy award. Jamsil = Song Jeong-heon Reporter's songs@sportschosun.com/2025.12.09/
It's as expected. Samsung Lions' Lewin Diaz, who hit 50 home runs for the fourth time in history and became the first foreign hitter to record the most RBIs ever, became the Golden Glove first baseman after Lee Seung-yeop and Shim Byung-ho.
Diaz became the winner of the first baseman category at the 2025 KBO Golden Glove Awards held at Lotte Hotel World Crystal Ballroom in Seoul on the 9th.
He beat Austin Dean, who won the award in 2023 and last year for two consecutive years.
Out of 316 valid votes, 303 votes, or 95.9% of the votes cast, were overwhelming. Austin, ranked second, received only eight votes (2.5%), Hanwha Chae Eun-sung and SSG Ko Myung-joon received two votes each, and Lotte Na Seung-yeop received one vote.
Samsung's Koo Ja-wook came out as a deputy prime minister and read his message. Koo Ja-wook said, "Hello, I'm Samsung Diaz. I'm happy and grateful for the Golden Glove award. I think I was able to receive it because I had a coach colleague who always supported me, who turned my heart around to the fans who supported me, thanked the club for making me play."
2025 KBO awards ceremony was held at Lotte Hotel World in Songpa-gu, Seoul on the 24th. Samsung Diaz, who won the Home Run Award, Jang Tae-yul Award and the RBI Award in the batter category, is posing. Reporter Park Jae-man pjm@sportschosun.com /2025.11.24/
The 2025 KBO Award Ceremony was held at Lotte Hotel in Songpa-gu, Seoul on the afternoon of the 24th. Samsung Diaz, who won the first baseman's defense award, is giving his acceptance speech. Reporter Jung Jae-geun cjg@sportschosun.com /2025.11.24/
Koo Ja-wook added of Diaz, `I think he is a very hardworking, good player and a cool player.' Diaz, who re-signed in the second half of last season as a substitute and performed well in the postseason, hit a `jackpot' this season. He played in all games this season and recorded a batting average of 314, 173 hits, 50 home runs and 158 RBIs.
He became the first foreign hitter to hit 50 home runs, and even set a new RBI record that far exceeded Park Byung-ho's 146 RBIs in 2015. With a slugging percentage of 0.644, he won three gold medals, competing for regular league MVP with four-time Hanwha Eagles champion Cody Ponce.
Diaz has already renewed his contract for next season. Diaz, who received a total of $800,000 this year, signed a total of $1.6 million next year (down payment of 200,000, annual salary of 1.3 million, incentives of 100,000).
This article was translated by Naver AI translator.
