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SK Wyverns is a Korean professional baseball team founded in 2000. It is based in 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....
. They play their home games at Munhak Baseball Stadium
Munhak Baseball Stadium

Munhak Baseball Stadium is a baseball stadium in Incheon, South Korea. It is the home stadium of SK Wyverns. The stadium holds 30,480 people and was built in 2001. It is adjacent to Incheon Munhak Stadium....
.

Their current manager is Kim Seong-geun (???, ???). Their bench coach is former Triple Crown
Triple crown (baseball)

In baseball, the Triple Crown refers to:#A batter who leads the league in three major categories -- home runs, runs batted in, and batting average....
 winner and home run champ Man Soo Lee
Man Soo Lee

Man Soo Lee is the former bullpen catcher for the Chicago White Sox, and current bench coach of the SK Wyverns of the Korean Baseball Organization....
.

first team to represent Incheon was founded in the inaugural KBO season in 1982, and were known as the Sammi Superstars.






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SK Wyverns is a Korean professional baseball team founded in 2000. It is based in 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....
. They play their home games at Munhak Baseball Stadium
Munhak Baseball Stadium

Munhak Baseball Stadium is a baseball stadium in Incheon, South Korea. It is the home stadium of SK Wyverns. The stadium holds 30,480 people and was built in 2001. It is adjacent to Incheon Munhak Stadium....
.

Their current manager is Kim Seong-geun (???, ???). Their bench coach is former Triple Crown
Triple crown (baseball)

In baseball, the Triple Crown refers to:#A batter who leads the league in three major categories -- home runs, runs batted in, and batting average....
 winner and home run champ Man Soo Lee
Man Soo Lee

Man Soo Lee is the former bullpen catcher for the Chicago White Sox, and current bench coach of the SK Wyverns of the Korean Baseball Organization....
.

History

The first team to represent Incheon was founded in the inaugural KBO season in 1982, and were known as the Sammi Superstars. The team was infamously unsuccessful, winning just 15 games out of 80 in their first season. They changed ownership in 1985 and were known as the Cheongbo Pintos. This new incarnation lasted only two seasons and became the Taepyeongyang Dolphins in 1988. In 1995, the powerful conglomerate, 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 ....
, bought the outfit and re-named them the Hyundai Unicorns
Hyundai Unicorns

Seoul Heroes is a South Korean professional baseball team. They are a member of the Korean Baseball Organization and compete in the annual KBO Championship which culminates in the Korean Series....
. With more potent financial backing, they finally brought the first 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....
 to Incheon in 1998.

In the 2000 season, the Ssangbangwool Raiders, a team that had previously represented the Jeollabuk-do
Jeollabuk-do

Jeollabuk-do is a Administrative divisions of South Korea in the southwest of South Korea. The province was formed in 1896 from the northern half of the former Jeolla province, and remained a province of Korea until the country's Division of Korea in 1945, then became part of South Korea....
 region, was dissolved because of the bankruptcy of the Ssangbangwool Group, the teams owner, and its franchise was fortified by KBO. Then the KBO awarded a new franchise to the SK conglomerate. The name of the new franchise was determines to be the SK Wyverns. So officially the Raiders and the Wyverns has no historical links although the former Raiders players mostly consisted of the new team. Therefore, no historical records of the Raiders were succeeded to the Wyverns.

The Unicorns moved out of Incheon to go 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....
, and the SK Wyverns filled the void left in Incheon. Their first Korean Series appearance came in 2003, where somewhat ironically, they were defeated by the Hyundai Unicorns in seven games.

In 2007, SK defeated the Doosan Bears
Doosan Bears

Doosan Bears are a Korean professional baseball team founded in . The Doosan Bears won the Korean Series in 1982, the inaugural Korean Baseball Organization season....
 in six games to win the 2007 Korean Series
2007 Korean Series

The 2007 Korean Series began on Monday, the 22nd of October, at the Munhak Baseball Stadium in Incheon. It featured the SK Wyverns, who had claimed home ground advantage by finishing in first place at the end of the season, and the Doosan Bears, who had finished second and had swept the Hanhwa Eagles in a best-of-5 playoff series to advance t...
 - the first time the franchise had won the Korean Series - after finishing the league in first place. They became the first team in Korean Series history to win after losing the first two games. Designated Hitter Kim Jae-hyun was the series MVP.

SK went on to compete in the Konami Cup, a short competition between the champions of the Korean Baseball League, the Japanese Baseball League, the Taiwanese Baseball League, and the China All-Stars.

On November 8, 2007, SK Wyverns managed to defeat the Chunichi Dragons (6-3), giving them their first ever loss in Konami Cup history. On November 9, 2007, they soundly defeated the China All-Stars (13-0), causing the game to be called in the 7th inning, due to the 'Mercy Rule'. On November 10, 2007, they repeated their performance, defeating the Uni-President 7-Eleven Lions of Taiwan (13-1) in 7 innings.

The final game, on November 11, 2007, was a rematch of the first game, between Chunichi Dragons and SK Wyverns. In an extremely close game, Chunichi managed to win the game, 6-5.

SK went to the Korean Series again in 2008, once again facing their main rivals, Doosan Bears. In a repeat of 2007, SK defeated Doosan to become 2 time Korean Series Champions. 21 year old 3rd baseman Choi Jeong
Choi Jeong

Choi Jeong is a third baseman who plays for the SK Wyverns in Korea Baseball Organization....
 was named the series MVP.

SK once again went on to compete in the Konami Cup. On November 13, 2008, SK Wyverns managed to defeat the Seibu Lions (4-3), marking the second straight year in which the Korean champions handed the Japanese champions a loss in this competition. On November 14, 2008, they once again defeated the Chinese representatives, Tianjin Lions, in a "mercy-rule" shortened game. On November 15, 2008, they were soundly defeated in a rematch with Uni-President 7-Eleven Lions of Taiwan (10-4) and failed to qualify for the championship game for a second straight year.

Current lineup


Season by season records

Year Rank Games W L Win %
2000 4 133 44 86 0.338
2001 7 133 60 71 0.458
2002 6 133 61 69 0.469
2003 2 133 66 64 0.508
2004 5 133 61 64 0.488
2005 3 126 70 50 0.583
2006 6 126 60 65 0.480
2007 1 126 73 48 0.603
2008 1 126 83 43 0.659


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