Sun Dong-yol

Sun Dong-yol is simply one of the most dominant pitchers in the history of Korean baseball, full stop. His career ERA in the KBO was absurdly low — we're talking about numbers that look like a typo — and he backed it up year after year with the Haitai Tigers through the 1980s and into the '90s. What always gets me is how he managed to carry that dominance over to Japan when he played in Nippon Professional Baseball, because crossing leagues at that level is genuinely hard. Later, watching him manage the Samsung Lions and the Kia Tigers gave fans a chance to see that baseball brain translated into strategy, and he clearly understood the game at a level most pitchers never reach. A true legend of East Asian baseball.

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Name (English)

Sun Dong-yol

Name (Japanese)

宣銅烈

Reading

そん・どんよる

Born

January 10, 1963 (age 63)

Origin

Gwangju, South Korea

Height

184 cm

Occupation

baseball player

Zodiac / Chinese zodiac

Capricorn / Rabbit

University

Korea University

• Wikipedia (English)https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sun%20Dong-yol
• Wikipedia (Japanese)https://ja.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E5%AE%A3%E9%8A%85%E7%83%88
• Wikidatahttps://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q482785

Tags

• baseball player

Last updated

October 18, 2026

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