Lee Seung-yuop
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Lee Seung-yuop (born 18 August 1976) is a retired
baseball player and the current manager of the
Doosan Bears. He spent most of his career with the
Samsung Lions of the
KBO League. At the age of 26, he became the youngest professional baseball player in the world to hit 300 career home runs. He formerly held the Asian home run record of 56 homers in a season, established in 2003 while playing for Samsung in the KBO. (The record was broken by
Wladimir Balentien of the
Tokyo Yakult Swallows, on September 15, 2013, when he hit his 56th and 57th Home Runs of the season against the
Hanshin Tigers of the
Nippon Professional Baseball League.) Lee holds the KBO records for career runs scored, RBI, total bases, and slugging percentage. Combined, across the KBO and NPB, Lee has also recorded more hits than any other native-born South Korean player. Since the
2022 KBO season as the manager of the
Doosan Bears, Lee has two playoff appearances. In
2022, Lee lead the Bears to their first wild card game under his reign against the
NC Dinos where they were eliminated from playoff contention after losing their first game. Lee then continued to the playoffs in
2024 where he lost against the
KT Wiz that ended their season.
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