Eagles ace Cody Ponce voted 2025 KBO MVP

Hanwha Eagles starting pitcher Cody Ponce is the MVP of Korean baseball for 2025. Ponce earned the Korea Baseball Organization (KBO) regular-season MVP honor on Monday following a historic campaign in his first season here. Ponce collected 96 out of 125 votes cast by baseball media, with Samsung Lions first baseman Lewin Diaz finishing in second place with 23 votes. Ponce, 31, won the pitching Triple Crown by leading the KBO with 17 wins, a 1.89 ERA and 252 strikeouts, a new single-season record by 27. The American right-hander also set a KBO record for the most consecutive wins by a pitcher from the start of a season with 17. He lost just once this year for a league-leading winning percentage of .944. Ponce also had the KBO's lowest walks and hits per inning pitched with 0.94 — no one else finished below 1.00 — and finished second overall with 180 2/3 innings pitched. Diaz also had a season to remember, setting the single-season record with 158 RBIs and leading the KBO with 50 home runs, most ever by a foreign-born player, and a .644 slugging percentage, but he still came up short agWeiter zum vollständigen Artikel bei Korea Times Weiter zum vollständigen Artikel bei Korea Times