Kim Jin Woo (born March 7, 1983 in Gwangju

Gwangju

Gwangju is the sixth largest city in South Korea. It is a designated metropolitan city under the direct control of the central government's Home Minister...

, South Korea

South Korea

The Republic of Korea , , is a sovereign state in East Asia, located on the southern portion of the Korean Peninsula. It is neighbored by the People's Republic of China to the west, Japan to the east, North Korea to the north, and the East China Sea and Republic of China to the south...

) is a right-handed relief pitcher

Relief pitcher

A relief pitcher or reliever is a baseball or softball pitcher who enters the game after the starting pitcher is removed due to injury, ineffectiveness, fatigue, ejection, or for other strategic reasons, such as being substituted by a pinch hitter...

 who plays for the Kia Tigers

Kia Tigers

Kia Tigers Professional Baseball Club is a Korean professional baseball team founded in 1982. The Tigers are a member team of the Korean Baseball Organization and the most successful team in Korean baseball having won the national championship, the Korean Series, ten times, with a perfect 10-0...

 in the South Korean professional baseball league.

Amateur career

2 year's time Gwangju Jinheung High School 2000 30th Phoenix, Sunchon Hyocheon High School waiting in the finals to win 4-0 against he led the team in 27 years after the foundation of the baseball championship led to the first central stage. Most Valuable Player awards in both competitions received awards and pitching. Promotion of Grade 3 in 2001, that time when the 35th National High School Baseball Tournament, and Article 82 of Presidential Cup National Athletics Championships this week, The 56th National High School Baseball Championship runner-up cheongryonggi led. KIA Tigers after being named in his professional debut was in 2002.

Professional career

Best ever rookie in 2002 include ornately gyeyakgeumin receive 700 million won plunged into professional world. Strikeouts in his first year crowned king showed strength are pregnant expect no less. High, compared with adjusted ERA ERA but did not otherwise. But the 150 km / h fastball pitchers as main weapon and the waterfall curve, the time was four strikeouts in four the number of mirrors much of it to his control. Of course, expectations plays a motmichyeoteuna the period 2002-2006, showed stable. But suddenly in 2007 shows tremendous hunting ERA record, including eight of the worst teams soon broke away to raise grades. Doctors told to return several times to escape, but was again, in nine sosoktim Kia Tigers took care of any withdrawal. Nine years of wandering the rough end of the famine in 2010 to arrange an independent league baseball team, joined the hatch yagudanin Korea. But this team is experiencing very serious financial trouble in the future course of action is unclear because the state then Korea in June 2010 eventually hatch out of baseball returning to Republic of Korea hunger versus nine in the care of the stiffness is currently training.

Return to Kia Tigers

At long last decided by the meeting of athletes and coaches as of 29 August 2010 as a formal return to the Kia Tigers sosoktim November and was able to join a team.