Who would be this year's MVP if it weren't for Kim Do-young. with 'Playing in all games'
Oct 05, 2024
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Every year, after the regular season, the MVP and rookie of the year votes are held. Inside and outside the baseball world, the view that the MVP of this year is Kim Do-young is dominant.
This season's batting average was 347 (3rd), 38 homers (2nd), 109 RBIs (2nd), on-base percentage (4th), on-base percentage (4th), on-base percentage (4th), 647 on-base percentage (1st), OPS 1.067 (1st), 143 runs (1st), 40 steals (4th), as was the case with senior Lee Jong-beom, 'baseball genius' itself. In particular, 143 points is a new record in the 43-year history of the KBO League.
The 40 (homer)-40 (homer) challenge, which could have reached the peak of the fire dragon in 2024, unfortunately failed. In 2015, Eric Thames remained the only achiever.
Even so, as long as the KIA Tigers have won the regular season with Kim Do-young's strong performance, there are virtually no players beyond that status.
This year's competitors were also formidable. 'Kongline' is a modifier that refers to players who have been blocked at the top of the list, compared to former professional gamer Hong Jin-ho. If everyone wasn't for Kim Do-young, this year's MVP would not be a waste.
The player who stands out the most is Koo Ja-wook. He hit a career high with a batting average of 343, 33 home runs and 115 RBIs, and an OPS of 1.044 (second place). `I don't know why I've been obsessed with the number of home runs. He emptied his mind and said, "There are so many home runs coming out like this." He also looked back on the past time.
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However, there is no title of '1st place'. If Kim Do-young is excluded from the current record table, only OPS can take the No. 1 spot for Koo Ja-wook. And OPS is not a KBO awards category.
KT Wiz Rojas was also not easy. In particular, if the vote was held after the postseason as in the past, the vote rate would have risen further. In the tiebreaker blood fight against SSG Landers, he hit two home runs and four RBIs, effectively putting KT on the fall baseball team by himself. In the wild card game against the Doosan Bears, he also led the team to victory with two hits and two points in eight at-bats.
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Rojas doesn't have a No. 1 title either. Along with Kim Do-young and Koo Ja-wook, he is one of only four players this season who achieved more than '3-4-5 (3% batting average, 40% on-base percentage, and 50% slugging percentage), which is a sample of excellent batters. The other one is Kiwoom Song Sung-moon (batting rate of 340%, 19 home runs and 104 RBIs, OPS of 0.927), who had a season of great pentagon.
What if Kim Do-young is not here. Unlike those who performed well in all the batting categories, players specializing in 'Title' may receive more attention. Strangely, it was a season in which title winners were divided by field.
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The 'RBI King' LG Austin is also not easy. He had a batting average of 319, 32 home runs (joint sixth), 132 RBIs (joint first), and an OPS of 0.957.
SSG Eredia (36th in batting average) and Lotte Reyes (202nd in hits), who competed with the batting champion until the end of the season, could also be candidates. In particular, Reyes broke Seo Geon-chang's 10-year-old record of most hits (201) in the last game of the season in 2014, marking a new 202 hit record. In 2014, Seo Geon-chang won the MVP award after defeating outstanding competitors such as Park Byung-ho and Kang Jung-ho.
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Pitchers also share titles in the same way. KIA James Nail (12-5, ERA 2.53), who is considered the best pitcher this season, left the game due to an unexpected direct hit injury in the second half of the season, and NC Heart (13-3, ERA 2.69) also missed the most wins due to sluggishness. Nail had to settle for first place in ERA and Hart in strikeouts. Samsung's Won Tae-in and Doosan's Kwak Bin (15 wins) ranked first in the most wins.
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