Picture of the Day: South Korea’s Baseball MVP
Eric Thames, a former major league player and now a first baseman of South Korea’s NC Dinos, smiles after winning the MVP award of the Korea Baseball Organization (KBO) on Nov. 24, 2015. Thames, 29, helped the Dinos to their second straight postseason and became the third foreign player to win the KBO’s top individual honor. (Yonhap)
Well deserved. Thames went from a .250 batting average and .431 slugging % in hi 2yrs (2011 and 2012) in the MLB to crushing it in KBL.
Last year, his stats with NC Dinos were an outstanding .343 BA and .688 SLG with 37 Home Runs.
This year- a .381 BA, .790 SLG, with 47 HRs!!! On base percentage of .497 and had 40 Stolen bases. He led the Korean Baseball league in not only BA and SLG, but also Runs Scored (130), and Doubles (42) .
WOW!
I forgot to add the link (for those who like sports stats):
http://www.baseball-reference.com/players/t/thameer01.shtml
Here’s the his award ceremony video:
http://baseballhotcorner.com/eric-thames-accepts-mvp-award-in-awkward-fashion/
In the 2nd video, the presenters hand him 4 trophies at the same time, yes 4! And then they hand him 3 bouquets of flowers and put the 4th bouquet in his back pocket (before the interpretor take it out of his pocket). WTF??? lol