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Seoul Heroes is a South Korean professional baseball
Baseball

Baseball is a bat-and-ball sport played between two team sport of nine players each. The goal of baseball is to score run by hitting a thrown Baseball with a baseball bat and touching a series of four markers called base arranged at the corners of a ninety-foot square, or diamond. Players on one team take turns hitting against...
 team. They are a member of the Korean Baseball Organization
Korean Baseball Organization

The Korea Baseball Organization of South Korea is the country's professional baseball league. KBO was originally founded with six teams in 1982 and currently has eight teams....
 and compete in the annual KBO Championship which culminates in the Korean Series
Korean Series

The Korean Series is the championship series of the Korea Baseball Organization. It has been held since the KBO's first season in and is the final series of in the post-season play-offs....
. The franchise was originally known as the Sammi Superstars and had subsequent incarnations as the Chongbo Pintos and Taepyoungyang Dolphins. The team was renamed the Hyundai Unicorns after being sold to Hyundai
Hyundai

Hyundai refers to a group of companies and related organizations founded by Chung Ju-yung in South Korea. The first Hyundai company was founded in 1947 as a construction company, and the Hyundai Group eventually became South Korea's largest Conglomerate ....
 in 1996, and was relocated from Incheon
Incheon

Incheon is a Special cities of Korea and a major seaport on the west coast of South Korea, near Seoul.Human settlement at the location goes back to the Neolithic....
 to Suwon
Suwon

Suwon is the provincial capital of Gyeonggi-do, South Korea. A city of over a million inhabitants, Suwon lies approximately 30 kilometres south of Seoul and is one of the most populous of Seoul's satellite cities....
.






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Seoul Heroes is a South Korean professional baseball
Baseball

Baseball is a bat-and-ball sport played between two team sport of nine players each. The goal of baseball is to score run by hitting a thrown Baseball with a baseball bat and touching a series of four markers called base arranged at the corners of a ninety-foot square, or diamond. Players on one team take turns hitting against...
 team. They are a member of the Korean Baseball Organization
Korean Baseball Organization

The Korea Baseball Organization of South Korea is the country's professional baseball league. KBO was originally founded with six teams in 1982 and currently has eight teams....
 and compete in the annual KBO Championship which culminates in the Korean Series
Korean Series

The Korean Series is the championship series of the Korea Baseball Organization. It has been held since the KBO's first season in and is the final series of in the post-season play-offs....
. The franchise was originally known as the Sammi Superstars and had subsequent incarnations as the Chongbo Pintos and Taepyoungyang Dolphins. The team was renamed the Hyundai Unicorns after being sold to Hyundai
Hyundai

Hyundai refers to a group of companies and related organizations founded by Chung Ju-yung in South Korea. The first Hyundai company was founded in 1947 as a construction company, and the Hyundai Group eventually became South Korea's largest Conglomerate ....
 in 1996, and was relocated from Incheon
Incheon

Incheon is a Special cities of Korea and a major seaport on the west coast of South Korea, near Seoul.Human settlement at the location goes back to the Neolithic....
 to Suwon
Suwon

Suwon is the provincial capital of Gyeonggi-do, South Korea. A city of over a million inhabitants, Suwon lies approximately 30 kilometres south of Seoul and is one of the most populous of Seoul's satellite cities....
. The Unicorns won the KBO championship four times (1998, 2000, 2003 and 2004), with only the Haitai Tigers (now Kia Tigers) having a better record of championship victories. In 2008, the team was sold to Centennial Investment and were renamed the Woori Heroes, after the naming rights were sold to Woori Tobacco. The Heroes play their home games at the Mokdong Baseball Stadium
Mokdong Baseball Stadium

Mokdong Baseball Stadium is a stadium located in Seoul, South Korea. The stadium is home of the Woori Heroes of the Korea Baseball Organization....
 in the Yangcheon-Gu
Yangcheon-gu

Yangcheon-gu is a gu, or district, of Seoul, South Korea. Located on the southwest side of the Han River . It was known as 'Jechapaui-hyun' during the Goguryeo age, And has gone through several name-changes since....
 of Seoul.

Like other baseball teams in Korea (and contrary to most professional teams in other sports around the world) the team is known primarily by the name of the sponsor, occasionally as as their nickname, and never as the city they come from.

The Heroes mascot is Teokdori.

Active Roster (Current)


Pitchers**** Catchers*

Infielders** Outfielders****

Season by Season Records

Year Rank Games W L Win %
2008 7 126 50 76 0.397

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