Bae Young-soo

Bae Young-soo is a former South Korean starting pitcher born on 4 May 1981 in Daegu. He pitched in the Korea Baseball Organization from his debut in 2000 with the Samsung Lions through 2019, spending later seasons with the Hanwha Eagles and finishing with the Doosan Bears. His career record in the KBO was 138 wins and 122 losses with an earned run average of 4.46 and 1,436 strikeouts. He was named KBO most valuable player in 2004, won the KBO League Golden Glove Award that year, and was a seven-time Korean Series champion. He also played for South Korea at the 2006 World Baseball Classic, where the team won a bronze medal, and the article links him to the lists of KBO career win and strikeout leaders.