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Hyeseong Kim
South Korean baseball player (born 1999) From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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Hyeseong Kim (Korean: 김혜성; born January 27, 1999) is a South Korean professional baseball second baseman, shortstop, and center fielder for the Los Angeles Dodgers of Major League Baseball (MLB). Nicknamed "The Comet", he is well-known for his speed. Kim previously played in the KBO League for the Kiwoom Heroes. He made his MLB debut on May 3, 2025 with the Dodgers.
Kim is the only KBO player to receive the Golden Glove Award at shortstop and second base.
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Amateur Career
In 2016, Kim received the Lee Young-min Batting Award, given to the top-hitting high school player in South Korea.[1] Kim was drafted by the Nexen Heroes of the KBO league in the second round of the 2017 draft from Dongsan High School in Incheon, South Korea. He was part of the same draft class as Lee Jung-hoo and later came to be teammates and friends with him.
Nexen / Kiwoom Heroes
Kim made his debut on June 28, 2017 against the NC Dinos where he had 3 at-bats in 6 games before being sent down to the KBO Futures League, the KBO minor league. He was later called up again on Sept 1. He finished the 2017 season playing 16 games with a batting average of 0.188 and OPS of 0.548.
In the 2018 season, he became a starter for the Heroes and recorded a batting average of 0.270 with OPS of 0.695 in 138 games. His skills, however, continued to go up from there as he ended his KBO career batting .304 with 37 home runs, 386 RBI and 211 stolen bases in 953 games for the Heroes, who became the Kiwoom Heroes in 2019.[2] He also won four KBO Golden Glove Awards for his great defensive ability.[3]
In his final season in the KBO League, Kim played in 127 games for Kiwoom, slashing .326/.383/.458 with 30 stolen bases and career-highs in home runs (11) and RBI (75). On December 4, 2024, the Heroes posted Kim to Major League Baseball (MLB) as a free agent.[4]
Los Angeles Dodgers
On January 3, 2025, Kim signed a three-year, $12.5 million guaranteed contract, which also contained two additional option years that would increase the value to $22 million, with the Los Angeles Dodgers of Major League Baseball.[3] The Dodgers also had to pay an additional posting fee of $2.5 million to the Heroes.[5] On March 11, the Dodgers announced that Kim, after struggling with the bat in spring training games, would start the season in Triple-A with the Oklahoma City Comets.[6] On May 3, Kim was called up to the major leagues[7] and he made his MLB debut as a defensive replacement that night against the Atlanta Braves.[8] Kim recorded his first MLB hit, against Sandy Alcántara of the Miami Marlins, on May 5 in his first start. He had two hits, an RBI, and scored a run in the game.[9] His first MLB home run was off Gunnar Hoglund of the Athletics on May 14.[10]
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