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Major Leaguer resume Vol.83
WBC Player’s resume Vol.69

■Today's player;
Today's player's resume concerns the KIA Tigers' lefty, Hyeon-Jong Yang. Yang played for the Texas Rangers in 2021 and will represent Team Korea in the 2023 World Baseball Classic.

■The KAISPO's baseball analyst comments;
"Yang is a left-hander who has led the Korean baseball world since a high school player. He played for the Rangers in 2022 but only pitched 12 games. In the 2023 season, the Korean star returned to his old team, the KIA Tigers in Korea Baseball Organization, winning 12 games. Although he mainly throws fastballs, now that he has become a veteran, the lefty often mixes in a changeup, slider, and curveball to retire batters effectively. With his career 159 wins, the most among active players in KBO, Yang is chasing Song Jin-woo's 210 wins, the most in KBO history."

■Story;
Hyeon-Jong Yang made a figure as a high school player as he threw well for South Korea in the 2006 World Junior Championship to lift the team to the Gold medal. 

The KIA Tigers drafted Yang in the first round of the 2006 KBO draft. In 2007, he made his professional debut with the KIA, going 1-2 with a 4.17 ERA in 31 outings as a relief pitcher. After pitching as a reliever in 2008, he joined the KIA's starting rotation in 2009 and excellently notched 12-5 with a 3.15 ERA in 29 appearances. 

In 2009, the left-hander recorded 16-8 with a 4.25 ERA but struggled to command with his BB/9 of 5.21. Since then, although the star lefty suffered an injury, he became KIA's ace, whose pitching records often ranked highly, including an ERA leader in 2015 and 2019 and a winning leader in 2017. After collecting 147 victories in KBO, he went to America as a free agent to take the mound for the Texas Rangers in Major League before the 2021 season. 

The Korean lefty made his big league debut on April 26, 2021, working 4 1/3 frames of relief and allowing two runs in Texas' 9-4 loss to the Los Angeles Angels at Globe Life Field. On May 5, having his first start against the Minnesota Twins, Yang tossed 3 1/3 innings on four hits and one earned run and racked up eight strikeouts to help the Rangers' 3-1 win. He finished the 2021 season with 0-3 with a 5.60 ERA in 12 contests with four starts. 

The 34-year-old Korean starter returned to Korea after the 2021 campaign and signed a four-year contract with his old KIA team. In 2022, he was 12-7 with a 3.85 over 30 starts.

Hyeon-Jong Yang has marked 159-102 with a 3.84 ERA in 455 games covering 2156.9 innings and 1814 strikeouts in his 15 KBO career campaigns at the end of the 2022 season. He is within range of the most wins all-time in KBO.
(MLB No.374 KAISPO No.1554)


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