Choo Shin-soo receives the highest annual salary this season. News 1
The average annual salary of professional baseball players in 2021 showed the largest decline in history.
According to the annual salary data of 10 club players released by the Korea Baseball Commission (KBO) on the 4th, the average annual salary of 532 players, excluding new and foreign players, was 12,273 million won, down 15.1% from last year (144.4 million won). The largest decrease in history, the previous largest decrease by 5.9% in 2008 was 79.72 million won.
The average annual salary of athletes surpassed 150 million won for the first time in 2018, and after reaching an all-time high of 150.65 million won in 2019, the trend has declined since 2020.
The total annual salary of the 10 clubs was also reduced by about 8.68 billion won to 65.29 billion won. It is interpreted as the impact of the generation change due to the retirement of high-paid players such as Park Yong-taek and Kim Tae-gyun, as each club entered into austerity financing as income decreased in the aftermath of the novel coronavirus infection (Corona 19) last year.
By club, KIA reduced the average annual salary by 38.4% from the previous year, and was ranked as the number one club, followed by Lotte (-37.6%), Hanwha (-28.6%) and LG (-20.1%).
The number one average annual salary was SK, which was acquired by Shinsegae Group E-Mart (173.42 million won). The league’s highest annual salary player, Choo Shin-soo (2.7 billion won) was recruited, and free agent (FA) Choi Ju-hwan was captured. This is the highest increase and increase rate by club.
In 2020, the integrated championship team NC ranked second with 14.89 million won, down 10.2% from the previous year.
On the other hand, Hanwha, who started rebuilding a team with a large number of veterans, was the lowest among 10 clubs with an average annual salary of 79.94 million won.
By player, after Shinsoo Choo, Euiji Yang (NC) and Byeongho Park (Kiwoom) ranked second with a joint annual salary of 1.5 billion won, followed by Choi Jeong (Shinsegae E-mart, 1.2 billion won) and Oh Seung-hwan (Samsung, 1.1 billion won). Was.
Kiwoom Lee Jeong-hoo received 550 million won this year, the fifth year as a pro, and set the highest annual salary for three consecutive years, and last season’s rookie king Sohn So-Jun (KT) recorded the highest increase by signing 140 million won, an increase of 418.5%. .
The number of annual salaries in billions was the highest in 2018 (164), and last year and this year were the same at 161.
The oldest of this year is Lotte pitcher Song Seung-jun (at the time of registration, 40 years, 7 months and 3 days), and the youngest is Hanwha new infielder Jung Min-gyu (18 years and 22 days).
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