{"id":14586,"date":"2014-02-17T17:48:00","date_gmt":"2014-02-17T17:48:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.stub.com\/hq\/news\/orioles-finalize-deal-with-korean-p-yoon\/"},"modified":"2014-02-17T17:48:00","modified_gmt":"2014-02-17T17:48:00","slug":"orioles-finalize-deal-with-korean-p-yoon","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.stub.com\/hq\/news\/orioles-finalize-deal-with-korean-p-yoon\/","title":{"rendered":"Orioles finalize deal with Korean P Yoon"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Sarasota, FL (SportsNetwork.com) &#8211; The Baltimore Orioles officially announced the signing of pitcher Suk-Min Yoon on Monday after the Korean league standout successfully passed a physical.<\/p>\n<p>MLB.com reported Thursday that Yoon, a former Korean Baseball Organization MVP, agreed to a three-year contract worth $5.75 million.<\/p>\n<p>The 27-year-old Yoon pitched nine seasons with the Kia Tigers in his native Korea and earned All-Star honors three times (2008, &#8217;09, &#8217;11) over that stretch. He led the KBO in wins (17), earned run average (2.45) and strikeouts (178) en route to winning the league&#8217;s MVP award in 2011.<\/p>\n<p>Yoon also captured the KBO ERA title in 2008 and has compiled a 73-59 record with a 3.19 ERA over his pro career. He went 3-6 with a 4.00 ERA in 30 games with Kia last season, splitting time between the rotation and the bullpen.<\/p>\n<p>The right-hander also led South Korea to its first-ever baseball gold medal at the 2008 Beijing Olympics and a runner-up finish at the 2009 World Baseball Classic. In five lifetime WBC appearances, Yoon has gone 2-0 with a 1.13 ERA over 16 innings.<\/p>\n<p>According to MLB.com, Yoon is still in the process of obtaining a work visa which will allow him to participate in the Orioles&#8217; upcoming spring training games.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Sarasota, FL (SportsNetwork.com) &#8211; The Baltimore Orioles officially announced the signing of pitcher Suk-Min Yoon on Monday after the Korean league standout successfully passed a physical. MLB.com reported Thursday that Yoon, a former Korean Baseball Organization MVP, agreed to a three-year contract worth $5.75 million. The 27-year-old Yoon pitched nine seasons with the Kia Tigers [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[12,45,46],"class_list":["post-14586","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-mlb","tag-baltimore","tag-baltimore-orioles","tag-orioles"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.stub.com\/hq\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14586","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.stub.com\/hq\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.stub.com\/hq\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.stub.com\/hq\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.stub.com\/hq\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=14586"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.stub.com\/hq\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14586\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.stub.com\/hq\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=14586"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.stub.com\/hq\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=14586"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.stub.com\/hq\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=14586"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}