South Korean baseball player
Baseball player
Son Min-han (Korean : 손민한 Hanja : 孫敏漢 Busan , South Korea ) is a retired South Korean starting pitcher who played 15 seasons in the KBO League . He was a long-time member of the South Korea national baseball team , pitching in the 1994 Asian Games , the 1996 Summer Olympics , the 2000 Summer Olympics , the 2006 World Baseball Classic , and the 2009 World Baseball Classic . He batted and threw right-handed.
Son attended Busan High School and Korea University .
Son was a member of the South Korea national baseball team in the 1996 Summer Olympics , where they finished eighth in the baseball tournament . Four years later he was a member of the South Korean baseball team that won the bronze medal at the 2000 Summer Olympics .
Son led the KBO League in victories and earned run average in 2005, winning both the KBO League Most Valuable Player Award and the KBO League Golden Glove Award for a season in which he went 18-7, with a 2.46 ERA and 105 strikeouts.
He played for South Korea in both the 2006 World Baseball Classic and the 2009 World Baseball Classic .
Son didn't play in the KBO from 2010 to 2012. When he returned to the league, he signed with the NC Dinos , for whom he played until the 2015 season, when he was 40 years old.
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