Kim Kyung-moon | |||
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NC Dinos – No. 74 | |||
Catcher / Manager | |||
Born: | November 1, 1958|||
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debut | |||
March 28, 1982, for the OB Bears | |||
Last appearance | |||
September 29, 1991, for the OB Bears | |||
KBO statistics | |||
Batting average | .220 | ||
Home runs | 6 | ||
Runs batted in | 126 | ||
Teams | |||
As player As coach As manager
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Career highlights and awards | |||
As manager
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Kim Kyung-moon | |
Hangul | 김경문 |
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Hanja | 金卿文 |
Revised Romanization | Gim Gyeongmun |
McCune–Reischauer | Kim Kyŏngmun |
As player
As coach
As manager
As manager
Kim Kyung-moon (Hangul: 김경문, Hanja: 金卿文) (born November 1, 1958) is the manager of the NC Dinos, and a former catcher in the Korea Baseball Organization.
Kim, a former catcher who threw and batted right-handed, attended Korea University in Seoul, South Korea. After graduation, he was signed by the OB Bears, which later became Doosan, and directly took the starting catcher position on the team as a rookie in Korean professional baseball's first year in 1982. Kim eventually led his team to the first Korean Series Championship in the KBO history, along with his battery mate Park Chul-Soon who won 22 consecutive games in the regular season.
In his 10-year major league career in KBO, Kim batted .220 with 6 home runs, 126 runs batted in, 119 runs, 329 hits, 60 doubles, 1 triple, and 17 stolen bases in 700 games. Kim was not a very good hitter, batting around the Mendoza Line during his ten seasons, but is considered one of the best defensive catchers of all time.
After retirement as a player in 1991, Kim went to Atlanta to study coaching under Bobby Cox in the Atlanta Braves until 1994 when he was hired as a coach for the Samsung Lions. He was bullpen coach for the 1994 Samsung Lions and remained there until the 1996 season. In 1998, Kim returned to the Bears and worked as bullpen and bench coach until the 2003 season.