Ryu Joong-il
Appearance
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Shortstop / Manager | |||||||||||||||
Born: Yeongdeok, North Gyeongsang | April 28, 1963|||||||||||||||
Batted: Right Threw: Right | |||||||||||||||
KBO debut | |||||||||||||||
April 6, 1987, for the Samsung Lions | |||||||||||||||
Last KBO appearance | |||||||||||||||
October 20, 1999, for the Samsung Lions | |||||||||||||||
KBO statistics | |||||||||||||||
Batting average | .265 | ||||||||||||||
Home runs | 45 | ||||||||||||||
Runs batted in | 359 | ||||||||||||||
Teams | |||||||||||||||
As player
As coach As manager | |||||||||||||||
Career highlights and awards | |||||||||||||||
As manager
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Ryu Joong-il (born April 28, 1963) is a former South Korean baseball player who is currently a former manager of the LG Twins of the KBO League.[1]
Ryu had a 30-year association with the Samsung Lions, from 1987 to 2016, starting as a player, then as a junior coach, a regular coach, and finally as the team's manager. As the Lions' manager from 2011 to 2016, he led the team to the Korean Series five straight times (2011–2015), winning the championship four times (2011, 2012, 2013, 2014) and finishing second once (2015).
References
[edit]External links
[edit]- Career statistics and player information from Baseball Reference (Minors)
- Career statistics and player information from Korea Baseball Organization
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- 1963 births
- Living people
- Samsung Lions managers
- Samsung Lions coaches
- Samsung Lions players
- KBO League shortstops
- Baseball players at the 1984 Summer Olympics
- Olympic baseball players for South Korea
- Hanyang University alumni
- Kyeongbuk High School alumni
- Sportspeople from North Gyeongsang Province
- South Korean baseball managers
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- South Korean baseball players
- World Baseball Classic managers
- South Korea national baseball team managers
- LG Twins managers
- Munhwa Yu clan
- South Korean baseball biography stubs