The San Diego Padres today signed Kim Ha-seong, formerly of the Kiwoom Heroes, to a contract for reportedly at least four years. Kim was originally a third round pick of the then-Nexen Heroes in the 2014 draft and he made his debut later that season. He stepped into the starting shortstop role the next season to replace Kang Jung-ho who had left Nexen for the Pittsburgh Pirates. He's been the Heroes starting shortstop ever since, winning three straight Golden Glove awards from 2018-20. He's also played for the Korean National Team at a number of international tournaments including the 2017 World Baseball Classic and the 2019 Premier 12.
His first baseball card is #SBC03-108 in the 2014 Ntreev Duael Super Star Season 3 set and he's had at least one card in each year since then in either the SMG/Ntreev/Dauel sets from 2015-16 and SCC from 2017-20. There's a mostly complete list of all of his cards over at the Trading Card Database. Here's the cards I have of his:
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| 2014 Ntreev Duael Super Star Season 3 #SBC03-108 |
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| 2015 SMG Ntreev Baseball's Best Players Hell's Fireball #PA01-NE004 |
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| 2016 SMG Ntreev Baseball's Best Players Diamond Winners #PA02-NE003 |
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| 2016 SMG Ntreev Baseball's Best Players Forever Ace #PA03-NE006 |
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| 2016-17 SMG Ntreev Superstar Black Edition #SBCBK-063-AS |
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| 2017 SCC #SCC-01-NX16/N |
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| 2018 SCC KBO Collection #SCCR-01/160 |
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| 2018 SCC KBO Collection 2 Red #SCCR-02R/055 |
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| 2019 SCC KBO Collection #SCCR1-19/073 |
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| 2019 SCC Premium #SCCP1-19/080 |
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| 2019 SCC KBO Collection 2 #SCCR2-19/075 |
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| 2019 SCC KBO Collection 2 #SCCR2-19/075 All Star |
2 comments:
Sounds like a good pick-up for my Padres. They also picked up You Darvish from the Cubs and Blake Snell from Tampa Bay. I'm curious where they actually play him, since they already have Tatis at SS and Machado at 3B.
It's only chatter on YT... but I heard he'd play 2nd and Cronenworth would play in the outfield? Either way... Ha-seong is another example that the Padres are serious about building a contender.
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