Song Seung-Jun

Infobox KBO player
bgcolor1=black
bgcolor2=grey
textcolor1=white
textcolor2=white
name=Song Seung-Jun
team=Lotte Giants
number=21
position=Starting Pitcher
bats=Right
throws=Right
birthdate=birth date and age|1980|6|29
debutyear=2007
debutdate=April 21
debutteam=Lotte Giants
statyear=2007
stat1label=Win-Loss
stat1value=5-5
stat2label=Earned run average
stat2value=3.85
stat3label=Strikeouts
stat3value=76
teams=
*Boston Red Sox (Rookie, A, AA) (1999–2002)
*Montreal Expos (Rookie, A, AA, AAA)(2002–2004)
*San Francisco Giants (A, AA, AAA) (2005)
*Kansas City Royals (AA) (2006)
*Lotte Giants (2007–present)Infobox Korean name
hangul=송승준
hanja= 宋勝準
rr=Song Seungjun
mr=Song Sŭngjun

Song Seung-Jun (Hangul: 송승준, Hanja: 宋勝準) (born June 29, 1980) is a starting pitcher who plays for the Lotte Giants in Korean professional baseball league.

Amateur Career

Song attended Kyungnam High School in Busan, South Korea. In September 1998, he was selected for the South Korean national junior team that competed in the 3rd Asian Junior Baseball Championship in Osaka, Japan.

Notable international careers

Professional career

In 1999, Song was signed by the Boston Red Sox as an amateur free agent after graduating from Kyungnam High School, and started his first American pro career with the Gulf Coast League Red Sox in the Rookie League.

In 2001, Song pitched to a 1.90 ERA (1st in the league) with 135 strikieouts (1st in the league) in 138 innings for the A Augusta GreenJackets and the high A Sarasota Red Sox, and was named Minor League Player of the Year by Baseball America. He also competed in the 2001 All-Star Futures Game as a member of World Team.

In 2002, he played for the AA Trenton Thunder, and competed in the 2002 All-Star Futures Game again. However, on August 1 he was traded to the Montreal Expos with Kim Sun-Woo in exchange for Cliff Floyd.

In 2003, he was selected again as a member of World Team for the 2003 All-Star Futures Game, but since then, he hadn't got a fair chance to make his MLB debut until playing for the 2006 Wichita Wranglers, the Kansas City Royals AA affiliate.

Song, the former Boston Red Sox prospect, was finally transferred to the Lotte Giants in the KBO league who signed him to one-year contract for $300,000 in March 2007.

In July 2008, Song was named to the 24-man roster for the 2008 Beijing Olympic Games, his first major international competition. Song started two games at the Olympics. On August 14, he pitched six scoreless innings against China, giving up only two hits while striking out nine. On August 19, Song pitched 6.1 innings against Cuba, allowing three runs and five hits to earn the win for South Korea.

Notable international careers

References

* [http://www.koreabaseball.com/record/player.asp?player_id=77591 Profile and stats on the KBO official website]