Choi Jeong, Noh Si-hwan, Kim Do-young, and Peraza participate in the 2024 All-Star Home Run Derby
Choi Jeong, Noh Si-hwan, Kim Do-young, and Peraza participate in the 2024 All-Star Home Run Derby
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Korea Professional Baseball's career home run leader Choi Jeong (SSG Landers), 2023 home run king Noh Si-hwan (Hanwha Eagles), and hot hitter
Kim Do-young (KIA Tigers) will engage in a showdown of pride in the 2024 KBO All-Star Game Home Run Derby.
KBO announced on the 28th, "Eight All-Stars have been selected to participate in the 2024 Shinhan SOL Bank KBO All-Star Game and Com2us
Professional Baseball Home Run Derby."
The players participating in this All-Star Home Run Derby were selected 100% through fan voting.
As of June 24, KBO held a fan vote for 12 batters selected as All-Stars among players who hit 10 or more home runs through the KBO All-Star website
and KBO 안전한카지노 application.
In a vote held from 10 AM on the 25th to 10 AM on the 27th, Choi Jeong came in first place with 22,906 votes.
Kim Do-young (19,248 votes), Noh Si-hwan (13,746 votes), Yonatan Peraza (10,158 votes, Hanwha), Austin Dean (10,041 votes), Park Dong-won
(10,036 votes, LG) Twins), Kim Hyung-jun (10,016 votes, NC Dinos), and Mel Rojas Jr. (10,012 votes, KT Wiz) were also in the top eight.
Matt Davidson (NC), who is in first place in this category with 24 home runs as of the 27th, was not eligible for voting as he did not participate in the
All-Star game.
This year's All-Star Home Run Derby will be held after the Futures All-Star Game at SSG Landers Field in Incheon on July 5th.
The winning batsman receives a trophy, 5 million won in prize money, and an LG CineBeam Cube.
Second place will receive a trophy and a prize of 1 million won, and the batter who hits the longest home run will receive a Samsung Galaxy Tab S9.
This year, the KBO decided to designate a certain area of the outfield as the 'Comp Field Zone' for the Home Run Derby, award the 'Comp Field Zone
Most Home Runs Award' to the player who hits the most home runs in that zone, and donate 1 million won worth of baseball equipment to the
winner's alma mater.