{"id":88862,"date":"2015-12-01T16:14:52","date_gmt":"2015-12-01T22:14:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/?p=88862"},"modified":"2015-12-04T14:42:33","modified_gmt":"2015-12-04T20:42:33","slug":"twins-sign-byung-ho-park","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/?p=88862","title":{"rendered":"Twins sign Byung Ho Park, DH role"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"HoParkByoung1\"<\/a>MINNEAPOLIS (AP) – Byung Ho Park will probably experience a sharp transition from Korean competition to Major League Baseball.<\/p>\n

Park and the Minnesota Twins are confident the 28-year-old slugger can handle it.<\/p>\n

Park summed up his belief Wednesday through an interpreter at his introductory news conference: “Baseball is baseball.”<\/p>\n

The Twins posted the highest bid last month to the Nexen Heroes in the Korea Baseball Organization before working out a $12 million, four-year contract for Park. He batted .343 with 35 doubles, 53 home runs and 146 RBIs in 140 games in the 2015 season.<\/p>\n

Park is a natural first baseman, but with Joe Mauer there in Minnesota he will be the team’s primary designated hitter.<\/p>\n

Park will be the 18th player born in Korea to reach the major leagues.<\/p>\n

Previously…<\/p>\n

MINNEAPOLIS (AP) – South Korean first baseman Byung Ho Park has agreed to a $12 million, four-year contract with the Minnesota Twins.<\/p>\n

The 29-year-old, who also is a designated hitter, gets $2.75 million in each of the next two seasons and $3 million each in 2018 and ’19. The Twins have a $6.5 million option for 2020 with a $500,000 buyout.<\/p>\n

On Nov. 9, Minnesota won the right to negotiate with Park for 30 days by placing a high bid of $12.85 million after he was posted by the Nexen Heroes under Major League Baseball’s agreement with the Korea Baseball Organization. The money was due only if Park signed with the Twins.<\/p>\n

Park hit .343 with 53 homers and 146 RBIs this year. He has a .281 average and 210 homers in parts of nine seasons in Korea.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

MINNEAPOLIS (AP) – Byung Ho Park will probably experience a sharp transition from Korean competition to Major League Baseball. Park and the Minnesota Twins are confident the 28-year-old slugger can handle it. Park summed up his belief Wednesday through an interpreter at his introductory news conference: “Baseball is baseball.” The […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":89141,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[27],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-88862","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/88862","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=88862"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/88862\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":89139,"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/88862\/revisions\/89139"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/89141"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=88862"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=88862"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=88862"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}