Picture of the Day: South Korea’s Baseball MVP

MVP of South Korean baseball

Eric Thames, a former major league player and now a first baseman of South Korea’s NC Dinos, smiles after winning the MVP award of the Korea Baseball Organization (KBO) on Nov. 24, 2015. Thames, 29, helped the Dinos to their second straight postseason and became the third foreign player to win the KBO’s top individual honor. (Yonhap)

0 0 votes
Article Rating
Subscribe
Notify of
guest

This site uses Akismet to reduce spam. Learn how your comment data is processed.

3 Comments
Oldest
Newest Most Voted
Inline Feedbacks
View all comments
Andy
Andy
8 years ago

Well deserved. Thames went from a .250 batting average and .431 slugging % in hi 2yrs (2011 and 2012) in the MLB to crushing it in KBL.

Last year, his stats with NC Dinos were an outstanding .343 BA and .688 SLG with 37 Home Runs.
This year- a .381 BA, .790 SLG, with 47 HRs!!! On base percentage of .497 and had 40 Stolen bases. He led the Korean Baseball league in not only BA and SLG, but also Runs Scored (130), and Doubles (42) .

WOW!

Andy
Andy
8 years ago

I forgot to add the link (for those who like sports stats):

http://www.baseball-reference.com/players/t/thameer01.shtml

Andy
Andy
8 years ago

Here’s the his award ceremony video:

http://baseballhotcorner.com/eric-thames-accepts-mvp-award-in-awkward-fashion/

In the 2nd video, the presenters hand him 4 trophies at the same time, yes 4! And then they hand him 3 bouquets of flowers and put the 4th bouquet in his back pocket (before the interpretor take it out of his pocket). WTF??? lol

3
0
Would love your thoughts, please comment.x
()
x