Son Min-han

Son Min-han is a retired South Korean starting pitcher, born on January 2, 1975 in Busan, who played 15 seasons in the KBO League and batted and threw right-handed. He attended Busan High School and Korea University and was a long-time member of the South Korea national baseball team, pitching in the 1994 Asian Games, the 1996 Summer Olympics, the 2000 Summer Olympics and the 2006 and 2009 World Baseball Classics. South Korea finished eighth in the 1996 Olympic baseball tournament and won the bronze medal in 2000. In 2005 he led the KBO League in victories and earned run average, going 18-7 with a 2.46 ERA and 105 strikeouts, and won both the league Most Valuable Player Award and the Golden Glove Award. After not playing in the KBO from 2010 to 2012 he returned with the NC Dinos and played until the 2015 season, when he was 40 years old.