Park Chan-ho (shortstop)
South Korean baseball player (born 1995)
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Park Chan-ho (Korean: 박찬호; pronounced [pɐk̚.tɕʰɐn.ɦo]; born June 5, 1995) is a South Korean professional baseball shortstop for the Doosan Bears of the KBO League.[1]
| Park Chan-ho | |||||||||||||
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| Doosan Bears – No. 7 | |||||||||||||
| Shortstop | |||||||||||||
| Born: June 5, 1995 Daegu, South Korea | |||||||||||||
Bats: Right Throws: Right | |||||||||||||
| KBO debut | |||||||||||||
| 2014, for the Kia Tigers | |||||||||||||
| KBO statistics (through 2025) | |||||||||||||
| Batting average | .266 | ||||||||||||
| Home runs | 23 | ||||||||||||
| Runs batted in | 353 | ||||||||||||
| Hits | 951 | ||||||||||||
| Stolen bases | 187 | ||||||||||||
| Stats at Baseball Reference | |||||||||||||
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Career
Park represented South Korea in the 2013 World Junior Baseball Championship, slashing .286/.375/.333, and fielding .968. He was then drafted by the Kia Tigers in the fifth round of the 2014 KBO Draft. He hit .183/.233/.234 in 69 games in 2015, and he had a .167/.222/.167 batting line in 2016.[2] Park then missed the next two seasons due to military service, and returned in 2019 hitting .260/.300/.318 along with his league-leading 39 steals.[3] In 2020, he struggled, hitting .223/.276/.275, but bounced back in 2021 with a batting line of .246/.331/.313 in 131 games.[2]
In 2022, he hit .272/.344/.341 along with 42 steals, leading the league again. In 2023, he improved to .301/.356/.378 and shared his first KBO Fielding Award with Oh Ji-hwan of the LG Twins.[1][2][4]
The next year, he won the fielding award again, along with his first shortstop Golden Glove Award following his championship win in the 2024 Korean Series.[4][5][6] In addition, he was selected to be in the 2024 KBO All-Star Game to represent the Nanum All-Stars at shortstop.[7] He slashed a career-high of .307/.363/.386 in the regular season,[2] and hit .318/.375/.455 with seven runs in the Korean Series.
In November 2025, Park signed a 4-year deal with the Bears.