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Sun-woo Kim

金善宇　/　きむ・そんう

Baseball player from South Korea

September 4, 1977 (age 48)　・　Incheon, South Korea

baseball player

My Take

Sun-woo Kim is one of those names that means more if you followed early-2000s baseball closely. A right-handed pitcher out of Incheon and Korea University, he made the jump to Major League Baseball with the Red Sox and bounced through the Expos, Nationals, Rockies and Reds before returning home to the Korea Baseball Organization. What strikes me is how much travel and adjustment that resume hides. Being a Korean arm in the big leagues in that era meant carrying expectations from two countries at once. I respect that he went the distance abroad and then kept pitching at home rather than calling it early.

Overview

Sun-woo "Sunny" Kim (Korean: 김선우; Hanja: 金善宇, Korean pronunciation: [kim.sʌn.u]; born September 4, 1977) is a retired South Korean professional baseball pitcher of the Korea Baseball Organization. He has previously played in Major League Baseball for the Boston Red Sox, Montreal Expos/Washington Nationals, Colorado Rockies, and Cincinnati Reds. He bats and throws right-handed.

Summary adapted from Wikipedia, licensed under CC BY-SA 4.0.

1. Profile

Name (English): Sun-woo Kim
Name (Japanese): 金善宇
Reading: きむ・そんう
Born: September 4, 1977 (age 48)
Zodiac / Chinese zodiac: Virgo / Snake
Origin: Incheon, South Korea
Blood type: Private
Height: 182 cm
Agency: Private
Occupation: baseball player

2. Background

Elementary school: Private
Junior high: Private
High school: Private
University: Korea University

3. Relationships

Spouse: Private
Children: Private
Parents: Private
Siblings: Private

4. Personality

Motto

Private

6. Links

Wikipedia (Japanese)https://ja.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E9%87%91%E5%96%84%E5%AE%87

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