Bears sign free agent shortstop Park Chan-ho

The Doosan Bears signed free agent shortstop Park Chan-ho to a multiyear contract on Tuesday, as the first domino fell in South Korean baseball's open market for the winter. The Bears said Park agreed to a four-year deal worth up to 8 billion won ($5.5 million) in total. He received a signing bonus of 5 billion won and will make 2.8 billion won in total salary. He can make an additional 200 million won in incentives. Park, 30, is the first of 21 free agents to sign since the market opened for business on Nov. 9. The sleek-fielding shortstop had spent the first 10 seasons in the Korea Baseball Organization (KBO) with the Kia Tigers, who selected him in the fifth round of the 2013 draft. In 1,088 career games, Park has a .266/.328/.332 line with 23 home runs, 353 RBIs, 514 runs scored and 187 steals. Over the past five seasons, Park has logged the most innings at shortstop in the KBO with 5,481. He was named the KBO Fielding Award winner at his position in 2023 and 2024, and also nabbed his first career Golden Glove, given to the best overall player at each position, in 2024. Park led the KWeiter zum vollständigen Artikel bei Korea Times Weiter zum vollständigen Artikel bei Korea Times