Moon Sung-hyun

Moon Sung-hyun is the kind of player I find myself rooting for precisely because he isn't a headline name. A Seoul-born right-hander who pitched in the KBO for the Kiwoom Heroes before retiring in 2026 to coach, he represents the unglamorous backbone of professional baseball, the arms that keep grinding through roster shuffles and rehab stints. I have a soft spot for the KBO's particular intensity, and pitchers like him embody the craft side of it, every pitch a small act of nerve. I don't need a Hall of Fame résumé to admire that durability. Longevity on the mound is its own quiet achievement, and I respect him for it.

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Name (English)

Moon Sung-hyun

Name (Japanese)

文聖現

Reading

むん・そんひょん

Born

November 9, 1991 (age 34)

Origin

Seoul, South Korea

Height

180 cm

Occupation

baseball player

Zodiac / Chinese zodiac

Scorpio / Goat

• Wikipedia (English)https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Moon%20Sung-hyun%20(baseball)
• Wikipedia (Japanese)https://ja.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E6%96%87%E8%81%96%E7%8F%BE
• Wikidatahttps://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q492889

Tags

• baseball player

Last updated

November 2, 2026

Only publicly available facts are listed; non-public or unconfirmed items are omitted. Base data was compiled from Wikidata from June 2026 onward; ages are recalculated daily and deaths are checked against Wikidata on an ongoing basis. English text is machine-assisted (facts translated by Sonnet, "My Take" written by Opus 4.8). The Japanese page is the source of record.