2016 KBO League season

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2016 Tire Bank KBO League
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League KBO League
Sport Baseball
DurationApril 1 – October 9
Number of games144 per team
Number of teams10
Total attendance8,339,577
Regular Season
Season champions Doosan Bears
Season MVP Dustin Nippert (Doosan)
Postseason
Wild Card champions LG Twins
  Wild Card runners-up KIA Tigers
Semi-playoffs champions LG Twins
  Semi-playoffs runners-up Nexen Heroes
Playoffs champions NC Dinos
  Playoffs runners-up LG Twins
Korean Series
Champions Doosan Bears
  Runners-up NC Dinos
Finals MVP Yang Eui-ji (Doosan)
KBO League seasons

The 2016 KBO League season was the 35th season in the history of the Korea Professional Baseball League.

Contents

Season structure

Stadium changes for 2016 season

Regular season

Each KBO team played 144 games during the regular season with all teams playing each other 16 times. The 144-game-schedule began in the 2015 season due to the addition of the KT Wiz. During the 2014 season, each team had played 128 games.

All-Star Game

On July 16, the best players participated in the 2016 KBO All-Star Game at Gocheok Sky Dome in Seoul. The participating franchises were divided into two regions, the Dream All-Stars (Samsung Lions, Doosan Bears, Lotte Giants, SK Wyverns, KT Wiz) and Nanum All-Stars (Kia Tigers, Hanwha Eagles, LG Twins, Nexen Heroes, NC Dinos). The Nanum All-Star team emerged victorious with an 8–4 victory over the Dream All-Star Team in front of a sold-out crowd of 16, 300 fans. Doosan Bears outfielder Min Byung-hun, who hit two home runs during the game, was named the MVP of the game. The KBO All-Star Game however does not determine home-field advantage in the Korean Series. [4]

Postseason

The 2016 KBO League season culminates in its championship series, known as the Korean Series. Before the 2015 season, the Semi-playoff format was tweaked. Previously, the top four teams after the end of the regular season qualified for the postseason, but in 2015, the top five teams qualified for the postseason. The team with the best record gained a direct entry into the Korean Series, while the other four teams competed for the remaining place in a step-ladder playoff system. Starting in 2015, the fourth-place and the fifth-place teams played in a "Wildcard" game/series.

Procedure to Determine Final Standings

Standings

RankTeam W L D Pct. GB Postseason
1 Doosan Bears 935010.650—Korean Series
2 NC Dinos 835830.5899Playoff
3 Nexen Heroes 776610.53816Semi-playoff
4 LG Twins 717120.50021½Wild Card
5 KIA Tigers 707310.49023
6 SK Wyverns 697500.47924½Did not qualify
7 Hanwha Eagles 667530.46826
8 Lotte Giants 667800.45827½
9 Samsung Lions 657810.45528
10 KT Wiz 538920.37339½

Source [5]

Postseason

Wild CardSemi-playoffPlayoff Korean Series
1 Doosan Bears 4
2 NC Dinos 32NC Dinos0
3 Nexen Heroes 14LG Twins1
4 LG Twins 24LG Twins3
5 KIA Tigers 1

Wild Card

The series started with a 1–0 advantage for the fourth-placed team.

LG won the series, 2–1.

GameDateScoreLocationTimeAttendance 
1October 10KIA Tigers 4 – LG Twins 2 Jamsil Baseball Stadium 2:4325,000 [6]  
2October 11KIA Tigers 0 – LG Twins 1Jamsil Baseball Stadium3:2125,000 [7]

Semi-playoff

LG won the series, 3–1.

GameDateScoreLocationTimeAttendance 
1October 13LG Twins 7 – Nexen Heroes 0 Gocheok Sky Dome 3:1616,300 [8]  
2October 14LG Twins 1 – Nexen Heroes 5Gocheok Sky Dome3:0616,300 [9]  
3October 16Nexen Heroes 1 – LG Twins 4Jamsil Baseball Stadium3:0125,000 [10]  
4October 17Nexen Heroes 4 – LG Twins 5Jamsil Baseball Stadium3:3324,352 [11]

Playoff

NC won the series, 3–1.

GameDateScoreLocationTimeAttendance 
1October 21LG Twins 2 – NC Dinos 3 Masan Baseball Stadium 3:3511,000 [12]  
2October 22LG Twins 0 – NC Dinos 2Masan Baseball Stadium2:2911,000 [13]  
3October 24NC Dinos 1 – LG Twins 2 (11)Jamsil Baseball Stadium4:4625,000 [14]  
4October 25NC Dinos 8 – LG Twins 3Jamsil Baseball Stadium4:0025,000 [15]

Korean Series

Doosan won the series, 4–0.

GameDateScoreLocationTimeAttendance 
1October 29NC Dinos 0 – Doosan Bears 1 (11)Jamsil Baseball Stadium3:5125,000 [16]  
2October 30NC Dinos 1 – Doosan Bears 5Jamsil Baseball Stadium3:1025,000 [17]  
3November 1Doosan Bears 6 – NC Dinos 0Masan Baseball Stadium3:1711,000 [18]  
4November 2Doosan Bears 8 – NC Dinos 1Masan Baseball Stadium3:2411,000 [19]

Foreign players

Each team could have signed up to three foreign players. Due to the high proportion of pitchers signed in previous years, beginning in 2014 the league mandated that at least one of the foreign players must be a position player. Also with the KT Wiz being an expansion team that started play in 2015, they were given an exemption and were allowed to sign four foreign players instead of just the normally allowed three.

TeamPlayerPositionIn KBO sinceSalaryNotes
Samsung Lions Allen Webster Pitcher2016$850,000
Collin Balester Pitcher2016$500,000Released
Arnold León Pitcher2016$500,000 [20] Signed to replace Collin Balester
Aarom Baldiris Infielder2016$950,000
NC Dinos Zach Stewart Pitcher2015$750,000
Eric Hacker Pitcher2014$900,000
Eric Thames Infielder2013$1,500,000KBO All-Star
Doosan Bears Dustin Nippert Pitcher2011$1,200,000KBO All-Star, KBO MVP
Michael Bowden Pitcher2016$650,000pitched no-hitter on 6/30/16 against NC Dinos
Nick Evans First Baseman / Outfielder2016$550,000
Nexen Heroes Ryan Feierabend Pitcher2015$580,000Released mid-season; picked up by KT Wiz
Robert Coello Pitcher2016$550,000Released
Danny Dorn First Baseman / Outfielder2016$750,000
Scott McGregor Pitcher2016$150,000Signed to replace Robert Coello
SK Wyverns Merrill Kelly Pitcher2015$750,000KBO All-Star
Chris Seddon Pitcher2013$500,000Released
Héctor Gómez Infielder2016$650,000
Braulio Lara Pitcher2016$230,000Signed to replace Chris Seddon
Hanwha Eagles Esmil Rogers Pitcher2015$1,900,000Released
Alex Maestri [21] Pitcher2016¥50,000,000 (about $440,000)Released
Wilin Rosario Catcher / Infielder2016$1,300,000KBO All-Star
Fabio Castillo Pitcher2016$250,000Signed to replace Alex Maestri
Eric Surkamp Pitcher2016$450,000Signed to replace Esmil Rogers
Kia Tigers Héctor Noesí Pitcher2016$1,700,000KBO All-Star
Zeke Spruill Pitcher2016$700,000
Brett Pill Infielder2014$900,000
Lotte Giants Josh Lindblom Pitcher2015$1,200,000
Brooks Raley Pitcher2015$680,000
Jim Adduci Outfielder2015$780,000Released
Justin Maxwell Outfielder2016$280,000Signed to replace Jim Adduci
LG Twins Henry Sosa Pitcher2012$900,000
Luis Jimenez Infielder2015$900,000KBO All-Star
Scott Copeland Pitcher2016$750,000 [22] Released
David Huff Pitcher2016$550,000Signed to replace Scott Copeland
KT Wiz [23] Yohan Pino Pitcher2016$500,000
Sugar Ray Marimón Pitcher2016$600,000Released
Travis Banwart Pitcher2014$600,000
Andy Marte Infielder2015$850,000
Josh Lowey Pitcher2016$220,000Signed to replace Sugar Ray Marimón

Foreign hitters

TeamPlayerBatting AverageHome runsRBINotes
Doosan Bears Nick Evans .3082481
Hanwha Eagles Wilin Rosario .32133120KBO All-Star
Kia Tigers Brett Pill .3132086
KT Wiz Andy Marte .2652274
LG Twins Luis Jiménez .30826102KBO All-Star
Lotte Giants Jim Adduci .291741Released by the team
Justin Maxwell .288416
NC Dinos Eric Thames .32140121KBO Home run leader, KBO SLG leader, KBO All-Star, Golden Glove Award
Nexen Heroes Danny Dorn .2951670
Samsung Lions Aarom Baldiris .266833
SK Wyverns Héctor Gómez .2832162

Attendances

TeamTotal attendanceHome average
Doosan Bears1,165,02016,180
LG Twins1,157,64616,078
SK Wyverns865,19412,016
Lotte Giants852,63911,842
Samsung Lions851,41711,825
Nexen Heroes782,12110,862
KIA Tigers773,49910,743
KT Wiz682,4449,478
Hanwha Eagles660,4729,173
NC Dinos549,1257,627

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