- Cho In-Sung (baseball)
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For other people with similar names, see Jo In-seong (disambiguation).
Cho In-Sung LG Twins — No. 44 Catcher Born: May 25, 1975 Bats: Right Throws: Right Professional debut KBO: April 15, 1998 for the LG Twins KBO statistics
(through mid 2011)Batting average .260 Home runs 144 RBI 626 Teams Medal record Men’s baseball World Baseball Classic Bronze 2006 San Diego Team Cho In-Sung (Hangul: 조인성; Hanja: 趙寅成; born May 25, 1975 in Seoul, South Korea) is a South Korean catcher for the LG Twins in the Korea Baseball Organization. He bats and throws right-handed. Korean baseball fans often call him as 'Outside Cho(조바깥)', because he leads pitchers to throw pitches to the outside of the batter very frequently.
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Amateur career
In November 1993, as a junior at Shinil High School in Seoul, South Korea, Cho was selected as a member of the South Korea junior national baseball team and competed in the annual friendly baseball series against the Japan junior national baseball team in Okinawa, Japan.
In 1994, Cho started his collegiate career playing for Yonsei University. Regarded as the nation's top catching prospect in college baseball, he regularly participated in international events during his four years at the college.
In 1996, Cho was called up to the South Korea national baseball team for the 1996 Summer Olympics in Atlanta, United States. In the Olympics, he hit 2 home runs, including a 2-run home run off of Masanori Sugiura, with a .263 batting average and 5 RBIs.
Notable international careers
Year Venue Competition Team Individual Note 1995 Japan
Universiade .333 BA (1-for-3) 1995 Japan
Asian Baseball Championship 1995 Cuba
Intercontinental Cup 4th .000 BA (0-for-8), 1 RBI 1996 United States
Olympic Games 8th .263 BA (5-for-19), 2 HR, 5 RBI, 3 R 1997 Chinese Taipei
Asian Baseball Championship Professional career
Cho was selected by the LG Twins in the 1st round of the 1998 KBO Draft. In his rookie season, he played 84 games as a backup catcher for the Twins, hitting .269 with 36 hits in 134 at-bats. After the season, Cho was named to the South Korea national baseball team that won the gold medal at the Asian Games held in Bangkok, Thailand in December 1998. Cho received a military exemption for winning the gold medal, alongside the fellow gold medalists Park Chan-Ho, Seo Jae-Weong and Kim Byung-Hyun.
After the 1999 season, All-Star veteran catcher Kim Dong-Soo became a free agent and signed with the Samsung Lions for the 2000 season. Upon Kim Dong-Soo's departure through free agency to the Samsung Lions, Cho earned the full-time position behind the plate for the Twins in the 2000 season.
In 2000, his first season as the full-time catcher for the Twins, Cho struggled at the plate, batting .225 with 5 home runs but exhibited strong defensive skills, leading the league in caught-stealing percentage, as he threw out 24 of 50 runners.
In 2003, Cho hit a career-high 19 home runs with a 257 batting average and 58 RBIs, playing in a career-high 132 games as the club's full-time catcher.
Prior to the 2006 season, In-seong played for the South Korea at the inaugural World Baseball Classic in March 2006. He led his team to the bronze medal, going 2-for-9 at the plate and splitting the position behind the plate with Hong Sung-Heon and Jin Kab-Yong.
In 2007, Cho had his most offensively productive season when he posted career-highs in batting (.282), hits (118), RBI (73), runs (44) and doubles (24) in 124 games.
During a televised pennant game in August 2009, Cho and one of his teammate pitcher Shim Soo-Chang arguing on the mound was caught on camera. The next day, Cho and Shim were both sent to the LG Twins minor league system.
Notable international careers
Year Venue Competition Team Individual Note 1998 Thailand
Asian Games .353 BA (6-for-17), 6 RBI, 2 R 2003 Japan
Asian Baseball Championship .000 BA (0-for-3) 2006 United States
World Baseball Classic .222 BA (2-for-9) 2006 Qatar
Asian Games .286 BA (2-for-7) 2007 Chinese Taipei
Asian Baseball Championship .400 BA (4-for-10), 1 RBI. 1 R 2008 Chinese Taipei
Final Olympic Qualification Tournament .222 BA (2-for-9), 1 RBI, 2 R External links
- Profile and stats on the KBO official website
South Korea 1996 Summer Olympics Roster P Cho Jin-Ho | P Oh Cheol-Min | | P Kim Sun-Woo P Jeon Seung-Nam | P Son Min-Han | P Moon Dong-Hwan | P Lim Sun-Dong | P Kim Young-Soo | C Jin Kab-Yong | C Jo In-seong | IF Kim Soo-Kwan | IF Baek Jae-Ho | IF Kang Hyuk | IF Lee Dong-Wook | IF Kang Pil-Sun | IF An Hee-Bong | IF Chae Jong-Gook | OF Cho Kyung-Hwan | OF Lee Byung-Kyu | OF Choi Man-HoSouth Korea 2006 World Baseball Classic roster 1 Min-Han Son | 3 Jin-Man Park | 5 Seong-Hoon Jeong | 6 Jae-Gul Kim | 7 Jong-Beom Lee | 9 Byung-Kyu Lee | 11 Hee-Seop Choi | 12 Ji-Man Song | 14 Min-Jae Kim | 15 Dae-Sung Koo | 16 Jong-Kook Kim | 17 Seung-Hwan Oh | 20 Kab-Yong Jin | 21 Tae-Hyon Chong | 22 Sung-Heon Hong | 25 Seung-Yeop Lee | 26 Jae Weong Seo | 28 Byung-Doo Jun | 33 Yong-Taik Park | 35 Jin-Young Lee | 36 Young-Soo Bae | 41 Jae-Hun Chung | 44 In-seong Jo | 45 Jung-Keun Bong | 49 Byung-Hyun Kim | 51 Sun-Woo Kim | 52 Tae-Kyun Kim | 55 Bum-Ho Lee | 61 Chan-Ho Park
Manager In-Sik KimCategories:- Baseball players at the 1996 Summer Olympics
- Olympic baseball players of South Korea
- LG Twins players
- Korea Professional Baseball catchers
- South Korean baseball players
- 1975 births
- Living people
- Asian Games medalists in baseball
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