'Arithmetic 40 Home Runs' 'Second Lee Jong-beom' Will he be the MVP as the first 40-40 club in Korea
Jul 09, 2024
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He had a batting average of 341, 23 home runs, 60 RBIs, 78 runs, and 26 steals. With an on-base percentage of 0.408 and a slugging percentage of 0.602, the OPS was 1.030.
In the first half, he ranked first in scoring and first in slugging percentage.
What fans are looking forward to is achieving the first 40 (homer)-40 (stealing) club by a Korean player.
When he hit 10 home runs in April, he seemed to be able to hit about 30 home runs, but as he finished the first half with a total of 23 home runs and second place in home runs, he can now expect more than 30 home runs and up to 40 home runs.
Arithmetically calculated, Kim Do-young has 40 home runs and 45 stolen bases. If he continues to play like this, he will become the second Korean player to achieve 40-40 clubs in history after Eric Thames (47 home runs and 40 steals) in 2015.
It is ranked first in scoring and slugging percentage, but it is falling in other attack indicators. His batting average is ninth, and his RBI is 12th. He is tied for fifth in stolen bases and 10th in on-base percentage. He is in the third place for the most hits with 109 hits, and is in a position to aim for the first place.
It is unclear whether the 30-30 club alone will be able to challenge for MVP. Of course, the 30-30 club is also a great record. Six players have recorded only eight times. Park Jae-hong, who was a symbol of Hotajunjok, first achieved it in 1996 and also achieved it in 1998 and 2000, the only record was recorded three times, followed by Lee Jong-beom (1997), Hong Hyun-woo (1999), Lee Byung-kyu (1999), Davis (1999), and Thames (2015).
If Kim Do-young achieves the 30-30 club, it is meaningful to achieve it for the first time in 24 years since Park Jae-hong recorded it in 2000, but it is not easy to put it as a representative record of MVP because there is already 40-40 in the team.
Of course, Kim Do-young can get close to the MVP if there is no multi-spectator among other hitters or pitchers or if he does not set a meaningful record.
In the batting section, many players shared the situation. Only Kim Do-young won two gold medals, Guillermo Herredia (SSG·0.361), Matt Davison (NC·26), No. 1 in home runs, Choi Hyung-woo (KIA·73), No. 1 in stolen bases, No. 1 in stolen bases, Ronnie Dawson (Kium·112), and No. 1 in on-base percentage are held by Hong Chang-ki (LG·0.435).
The same goes for the pitcher. Enmanuel de Heysus (Kium) leads the pack with 10 wins, and KIA's James Nail ranks first with a 2.66 ERA. NC's Kyle Hart ranks first with 111 strikeouts, Samsung's Oh Seung-hwan ranks first in saves with 24 saves, and Samsung's Lim Chang-min leads the hold with 20 holds.
In 2015, when Thames became MVP by achieving 40-40 clubs, Thames became the batting champion with a batting average of 381, and he also ranked first in scoring (130 points), on-base percentage (0.497), and slugging percentage (0.790), qualifying him to become MVP in terms of title. Park Byung-ho (then Nexen), Thames' opponent, hit 50 home runs for the second consecutive year for the first time with 53 home runs, and became the home run-run king with 146 RBIs, but could not beat the league's first 40-40 club. In 2014, Park Byung-ho also became the home run-run and RBI king with 52 home runs, but Park Byung-ho, who gave up MVP to Seo Geon-chang (batting rate, scoring, and winning three most hits) of the same team, who surpassed 200 hits for the first time with 201 hits, remembers missing MVP in another milestone.
If there is no multi-crowd king, the possibility of Kim Do-young's MVP increases. If you achieve a 40-40 club, you can be ranked zero. Will Kim Do-young be able to hit 17 home runs in the second half of the season. With KIA's regular league win, fans will be most curious.
indyk@sportschosun.com
