Kim Jae-ho (36) also signed his second free agent (FA) contract with the professional baseball Doosan Bears.
On the 8th, Doosan said, “We completed a free agency contract with Kim Jae-ho for a total of 2.5 billion won for three years,” and “the contract terms are 900 million won and the total annual salary for three years is 1.6 billion won.”
Kim Jae-ho, who joined Doosan in 2004 under the first nomination, obtained his first personal free agency qualification in December 2016, and then signed a contract with Doosan for 4 years for 5 billion won.
Kim Jae-ho is guaranteed three years from his second free agency contract and can play for Doosan until 2023.
Kim Jae-ho, who finished the contract, said, “I am happy to have my second free agency contract with Doosan.
I will lead my juniors well,” he said, “I will do my best to run with the heart of a rookie until the day I take off the uniform.”
Kim Jae-ho is considered the best shortstop in active duty with both air and hand.
He is also an FA schoolboy.
After signing his first free agency four-year contract, he played 472 games in four seasons from 2017 to 2020, batting average of 0.290 and on-base ratio of 0.376.
The slugging power was slightly lower, but with a stable defense, Doosan held the center of the infield.
In fact, it took Kim Jae-ho quite a long time to establish himself in the first group.
Although he joined in 2004 as the first nomination, Kim Jae-ho did not exceed his team’s senior Son Si-heon (now NC Dinos coach).
In 2008, when Son Si-heon served in the military, he only played 112 games, and was unable to remove the tag as a backup infielder.
As Son Si-heon, who obtained FA qualification in 2013, left for NC, Kim Jae-ho got an opportunity to spread his wings.
Kim Jae-ho, who learned’the sense’ by playing 122 games in 2014, won the first Golden Gloves of his life with a batting average of 0.307, 3 home runs and 50 RBIs in 133 games in 2015.
That year, Doosan won the Korean Series.
Kim Jae-ho was the captain of Doosan in 2016.
At that time, Doosan won the regular season with the most wins (93 wins) in a season and achieved 2 consecutive defeats in the Korean Series.
Kim Jae-ho was selected as the national team for the first time in his career at Premier 12 in November 2015, and was also the captain of the national team at the 2017 World Baseball Classic (WBC).
Doosan, which produced 7 players in the free agency market at the same time, signed a residual contract with Kim Jae-ho following infielder Heo Gyeong-min (8.5 billion won for 7 years) and outfielder Soo-bin (5.6 billion won for 6 years).
Jae-il Oh (Samsung Lions) and Joo-Hwan Choi (SK Wyverns) left the team, but the power leakage was minimized.
Doosan plans to continue negotiations with free agent pitchers Lee Yong-chan and Yoo Hee-gwan.
/yunhap news