
Professional Baseball Numbers Book 2025
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Book Introduction
Expanding your baseball knowledge through objective indicators
A Preview of the 2025 KBO League Through Numerical Analysis
『Pro Baseball Numbers Book』 is a book that looks at and interprets Korean professional baseball from a sabermetrics perspective.
Sabermetrics was first introduced to Korean baseball fans in the mid-to-late 1990s, during the era of PC communication.
Since then, sabermetrics indicators and methodologies, starting with OPS, have been introduced in mainstream media.
It is now also affecting the operation of professional baseball teams.
However, until now, there has been no book that covers Korean professional baseball using sabermetrics.
The writing team included 'domestic sabermetricians' who are active in media outlets, baseball societies, and other organizations.
These are writers who have a strong desire to show the 'form' of number baseball.
A book composed solely of numbers and data might feel stiff and difficult, but this book, with its on-site photos, humorous narrative, and colorful design, aims to appeal not only to hardcore fans but also to the younger generation who are just becoming interested in baseball.
The introduction contains detailed explanations of baseball indicators.
This will literally be a 'guidebook' for fans entering the world of 'number baseball'.
A Preview of the 2025 KBO League Through Numerical Analysis
『Pro Baseball Numbers Book』 is a book that looks at and interprets Korean professional baseball from a sabermetrics perspective.
Sabermetrics was first introduced to Korean baseball fans in the mid-to-late 1990s, during the era of PC communication.
Since then, sabermetrics indicators and methodologies, starting with OPS, have been introduced in mainstream media.
It is now also affecting the operation of professional baseball teams.
However, until now, there has been no book that covers Korean professional baseball using sabermetrics.
The writing team included 'domestic sabermetricians' who are active in media outlets, baseball societies, and other organizations.
These are writers who have a strong desire to show the 'form' of number baseball.
A book composed solely of numbers and data might feel stiff and difficult, but this book, with its on-site photos, humorous narrative, and colorful design, aims to appeal not only to hardcore fans but also to the younger generation who are just becoming interested in baseball.
The introduction contains detailed explanations of baseball indicators.
This will literally be a 'guidebook' for fans entering the world of 'number baseball'.
- You can preview some of the book's contents.
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index
GUIDE Why should we know these records? _Shin Won-cheol
[FEATURES]
2024 KBO League Report - Shin Won-cheol
How Great Was Kim Do-young's 2024? _Lee Seong-hun
The reason Kim Taek-yeon's fastball is so special: the "Bauer Unit" _ Lee Seong-hoon
Kim Hye-sung, an unprecedented "KBO-born major leaguer" _ Lee Seong-hoon
Professional Baseball Players Are Changing: Kim Hui-jip, Lim Chang-min, and Choi Min-gyu
An Interview with the First Generation of Korean Sabermetricians Who Went to the Field _Shin Won-cheol
KIA's Third Baseman Was the Strongest: 2024 KBO League Position-by-Position Batting Analysis _ Choi Min-kyu
Om Mani Padme Hum, Palchiol Padme Hum _Hwang Gyu-in
Did ABS Really Ruin Submarine Pitchers? _Hwang Gyu-in
ABS, the thrilling height difference _Shin Dong-yoon
Baseball Time _ Shin Dong-yoon
What Happened When the Pitch Clock Was Introduced in Major League Baseball _Shin Won-cheol
Who's the league's top "left-right" play enthusiast? _Hwang Gyu-in
What We Can Learn from Swings and Misses _ Hwang Gyu-in
Do You Really Need to Be Big to Play Baseball Well? _Hwang Gyu-in
K-Baseball Resembling Dynamic Korea _ Lee Seong-hun
Characteristics of the Three Korean, American, and Japanese Leagues Based on Pitch Types _Choi Min-gyu
'Beijing Star' vs. 'Beijing Kid': Who's the Better? _Lee Seong-hoon
10 Years of Widening Gap Between Korean and Japanese Baseball _ Choi Min-kyu
The share of electricity in 2024 was the highest in 11 years. _Choi Min-gyu
Korean and Japanese professional baseball: Similar beginnings and differences now _Choi Min-kyu
The Widening Gap Between the World and the Restraints _Lee Seong-hun
Top 10 Tribute Traits in Professional Baseball History _ Hwang Gyu-in
The KBO League's explosive success is driven by young people in their 20s and women. _Lee Seong-hun
The "Self-Reliability" of Korean Professional Baseball as Seen Through the Own Sales Ratio _ Choi Min-gyu
Signs of 10 Million Audiences _ Shin Won-cheol
[RECIPES]
Changes in the Tagotuzer and the Pitch-Gotazer over Time _Lee Seong-hun
Was the 2024 Tagotuzer due to "Tangtang Ball"? _Lee Seong-hoon
The reversal of the "left-handed increase" trend... Why? _Lee Seong-hun
Is the leadoff hitter special? _Shin Dong-yoon
Now we need a 'Joseon's No. 3 hitter' _ Hwang Gyu-in
The Pitcher Who Dominates the Third At-Battal _Shin Won-cheol
The Dominant Hitter of the Third At-Battal - Shin Won-cheol
Speed of the runner on second base _ Shin Dong-yoon
Break-even point for home games _ Shin Dong-yoon
Good, Bad, and Weird Stadiums for Defense _ Shin Dong-yoon
How old is our team's WAR? WAR age distribution of hitters across 10 teams - Shin Dong-yoon
How old is our team's WAR? WAR age distribution of pitchers across 10 teams - Shin Dong-yoon
Relief Pitcher's First At-Battal Win _ Shin Dong-yoon
Professional Baseball Manager Pitcher Replacement Report Card _ Hwang Gyu-in
Was the 4-out save really due to a 'hit-and-run pitcher'? - Shin Won-cheol
Theft and the 'Intangible Effect' _ Choi Min-gyu
Professional Baseball and Stolen Bases as Seen Through Base Expansion - Choi Min-gyu
Why a one-point victory is so thrilling _ Hwang Gyu-in
Theater Index Calculated with WPA _ Shin Dong-yoon 4
Is Fall Baseball Ruled by Pitchers? _Choi Min-gyu
LG's cost per win is twice that of Kiwoom's _ Hwang Gyu-in
Jajangmyeon Index _ Choi Min-gyu
Salary Cap Easing: I Knew the "Variation Coefficient" _Choi Min-gyu
Why the 2024 Pro Baseball Rally Will Be Historic _Choi Min-kyu
Korean professional baseball salaries are more unequal than those in the major leagues. _Choi Min-gyu
[TEAM ISSUE]
150 km/h is coming… The speed revolution led by amateur baseball is now in the KBO League _Shin Won-cheol
2025 New Foreign Players: Keyword Analysis - Lee Chang-seop
GUIDE Understanding Team KPIs _Shin Dong-yoon
Why KIA's V12 Is or Isn't a Disruption _ Lee Seong-hun
How Samsung Became Stronger _Choi Min-kyu
"Details at home, big ball on the road" - How much of LG's vision has become a reality? _Shin Won-cheol
Can Doosan Achieve Both Growth and Performance? _Lee Seong-hun
(2+9)÷2=KT _Hwang Gyu-in
SSG of Lee Soong-yong, for Lee Soong-yong, by Lee Soong-yong _ Hwang Gyu-in
Lotte and the Youth Movement in 2024 - Choi Min-kyu
Why Hanwha's Rebuilding Isn't Over - Lee Seong-hun
Son Ah-seop and Park Geon-woo are not there, or even if they were there _Shin Won-cheol
A New Perspective on Tanking Through Kiwoom _Shin Won-cheol
High School Baseball Prospects to Watch in 2025: Lee Jae-guk
[FEATURES]
2024 KBO League Report - Shin Won-cheol
How Great Was Kim Do-young's 2024? _Lee Seong-hun
The reason Kim Taek-yeon's fastball is so special: the "Bauer Unit" _ Lee Seong-hoon
Kim Hye-sung, an unprecedented "KBO-born major leaguer" _ Lee Seong-hoon
Professional Baseball Players Are Changing: Kim Hui-jip, Lim Chang-min, and Choi Min-gyu
An Interview with the First Generation of Korean Sabermetricians Who Went to the Field _Shin Won-cheol
KIA's Third Baseman Was the Strongest: 2024 KBO League Position-by-Position Batting Analysis _ Choi Min-kyu
Om Mani Padme Hum, Palchiol Padme Hum _Hwang Gyu-in
Did ABS Really Ruin Submarine Pitchers? _Hwang Gyu-in
ABS, the thrilling height difference _Shin Dong-yoon
Baseball Time _ Shin Dong-yoon
What Happened When the Pitch Clock Was Introduced in Major League Baseball _Shin Won-cheol
Who's the league's top "left-right" play enthusiast? _Hwang Gyu-in
What We Can Learn from Swings and Misses _ Hwang Gyu-in
Do You Really Need to Be Big to Play Baseball Well? _Hwang Gyu-in
K-Baseball Resembling Dynamic Korea _ Lee Seong-hun
Characteristics of the Three Korean, American, and Japanese Leagues Based on Pitch Types _Choi Min-gyu
'Beijing Star' vs. 'Beijing Kid': Who's the Better? _Lee Seong-hoon
10 Years of Widening Gap Between Korean and Japanese Baseball _ Choi Min-kyu
The share of electricity in 2024 was the highest in 11 years. _Choi Min-gyu
Korean and Japanese professional baseball: Similar beginnings and differences now _Choi Min-kyu
The Widening Gap Between the World and the Restraints _Lee Seong-hun
Top 10 Tribute Traits in Professional Baseball History _ Hwang Gyu-in
The KBO League's explosive success is driven by young people in their 20s and women. _Lee Seong-hun
The "Self-Reliability" of Korean Professional Baseball as Seen Through the Own Sales Ratio _ Choi Min-gyu
Signs of 10 Million Audiences _ Shin Won-cheol
[RECIPES]
Changes in the Tagotuzer and the Pitch-Gotazer over Time _Lee Seong-hun
Was the 2024 Tagotuzer due to "Tangtang Ball"? _Lee Seong-hoon
The reversal of the "left-handed increase" trend... Why? _Lee Seong-hun
Is the leadoff hitter special? _Shin Dong-yoon
Now we need a 'Joseon's No. 3 hitter' _ Hwang Gyu-in
The Pitcher Who Dominates the Third At-Battal _Shin Won-cheol
The Dominant Hitter of the Third At-Battal - Shin Won-cheol
Speed of the runner on second base _ Shin Dong-yoon
Break-even point for home games _ Shin Dong-yoon
Good, Bad, and Weird Stadiums for Defense _ Shin Dong-yoon
How old is our team's WAR? WAR age distribution of hitters across 10 teams - Shin Dong-yoon
How old is our team's WAR? WAR age distribution of pitchers across 10 teams - Shin Dong-yoon
Relief Pitcher's First At-Battal Win _ Shin Dong-yoon
Professional Baseball Manager Pitcher Replacement Report Card _ Hwang Gyu-in
Was the 4-out save really due to a 'hit-and-run pitcher'? - Shin Won-cheol
Theft and the 'Intangible Effect' _ Choi Min-gyu
Professional Baseball and Stolen Bases as Seen Through Base Expansion - Choi Min-gyu
Why a one-point victory is so thrilling _ Hwang Gyu-in
Theater Index Calculated with WPA _ Shin Dong-yoon 4
Is Fall Baseball Ruled by Pitchers? _Choi Min-gyu
LG's cost per win is twice that of Kiwoom's _ Hwang Gyu-in
Jajangmyeon Index _ Choi Min-gyu
Salary Cap Easing: I Knew the "Variation Coefficient" _Choi Min-gyu
Why the 2024 Pro Baseball Rally Will Be Historic _Choi Min-kyu
Korean professional baseball salaries are more unequal than those in the major leagues. _Choi Min-gyu
[TEAM ISSUE]
150 km/h is coming… The speed revolution led by amateur baseball is now in the KBO League _Shin Won-cheol
2025 New Foreign Players: Keyword Analysis - Lee Chang-seop
GUIDE Understanding Team KPIs _Shin Dong-yoon
Why KIA's V12 Is or Isn't a Disruption _ Lee Seong-hun
How Samsung Became Stronger _Choi Min-kyu
"Details at home, big ball on the road" - How much of LG's vision has become a reality? _Shin Won-cheol
Can Doosan Achieve Both Growth and Performance? _Lee Seong-hun
(2+9)÷2=KT _Hwang Gyu-in
SSG of Lee Soong-yong, for Lee Soong-yong, by Lee Soong-yong _ Hwang Gyu-in
Lotte and the Youth Movement in 2024 - Choi Min-kyu
Why Hanwha's Rebuilding Isn't Over - Lee Seong-hun
Son Ah-seop and Park Geon-woo are not there, or even if they were there _Shin Won-cheol
A New Perspective on Tanking Through Kiwoom _Shin Won-cheol
High School Baseball Prospects to Watch in 2025: Lee Jae-guk
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Publisher's Review
A baseball book 'unprecedented in Korea'
A comprehensive guide to professional baseball, presented in numbers and data.
For baseball fans, 'Moneyball' and 'sabermetrics' have become familiar words.
The names of sabermetricians like Billy Beane and Bill James became known through mass media such as movies, and data baseball gained legitimacy as they showed results.
Korean baseball fans have also found new ways to understand and enjoy baseball more deeply.
So, the thirst was intense. There was no place to satisfy the needs of baseball fans who wanted far more information than the official KBO records.
All fans could do was create their own data analysis site and exchange baseball information through the community.
These Korean sabermetricians, who have grown up in this way, are entering the baseball world as KBO League teams embrace data baseball, collecting data to win, and discovering the mechanics of baseball and training and development methods for winning.
However, unlike the club, there were few cases where the mass media covered it 'properly'.
Information was also limited.
Clearly, the demand for data baseball has increased, but there has been no medium to meet the demand, nor has there been a book to address it.
So, 《Pro Baseball Numbers Book 2025》 is the first intuitive guidebook in Korea that provides a better understanding of baseball through numbers.
Sabermetrics Recipes That Will Answer Your Long-standing Curiosities
Articles covering a wide range of topics, including each club, foreign players, and high school prospects.
The data in this book is based on 'Stattiz' and contains reading material of various types.
We've also compiled the key points of the 2025 KBO League season, including baseball common sense that finally concludes a topic that baseball fans have been debating, articles that visually and concisely flatten the prominent characteristics of each player, and point columns for each team in the 2025 season.
Major League expert Lee Chang-seop introduces foreign players who will play in the KBO League, and reporter Lee Jae-guk carefully selects and introduces promising high school baseball players who have become more familiar to baseball fans through 'Best Baseball', which is always interesting to read.
A comprehensive guide to professional baseball, presented in numbers and data.
For baseball fans, 'Moneyball' and 'sabermetrics' have become familiar words.
The names of sabermetricians like Billy Beane and Bill James became known through mass media such as movies, and data baseball gained legitimacy as they showed results.
Korean baseball fans have also found new ways to understand and enjoy baseball more deeply.
So, the thirst was intense. There was no place to satisfy the needs of baseball fans who wanted far more information than the official KBO records.
All fans could do was create their own data analysis site and exchange baseball information through the community.
These Korean sabermetricians, who have grown up in this way, are entering the baseball world as KBO League teams embrace data baseball, collecting data to win, and discovering the mechanics of baseball and training and development methods for winning.
However, unlike the club, there were few cases where the mass media covered it 'properly'.
Information was also limited.
Clearly, the demand for data baseball has increased, but there has been no medium to meet the demand, nor has there been a book to address it.
So, 《Pro Baseball Numbers Book 2025》 is the first intuitive guidebook in Korea that provides a better understanding of baseball through numbers.
Sabermetrics Recipes That Will Answer Your Long-standing Curiosities
Articles covering a wide range of topics, including each club, foreign players, and high school prospects.
The data in this book is based on 'Stattiz' and contains reading material of various types.
We've also compiled the key points of the 2025 KBO League season, including baseball common sense that finally concludes a topic that baseball fans have been debating, articles that visually and concisely flatten the prominent characteristics of each player, and point columns for each team in the 2025 season.
Major League expert Lee Chang-seop introduces foreign players who will play in the KBO League, and reporter Lee Jae-guk carefully selects and introduces promising high school baseball players who have become more familiar to baseball fans through 'Best Baseball', which is always interesting to read.
GOODS SPECIFICS
- Date of issue: March 24, 2025
- Page count, weight, size: 352 pages | 1,058g | 187*250*22mm
- ISBN13: 9791142312533
- ISBN10: 1142312534
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