Park Sei-Hyok (born 9 January 1990), nicknamed "Triple Machine", is a South Korean baseball player for the

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in the

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. His position is the catcher. Park is the son of former KBO player Park Chul-woo, a slugger who won the 1989

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for the

Haitai Tigers The Kia Tigers () are a South Korean professional baseball team founded in 1982 and based in the southwestern city of Gwangju. Until 2001, they were known as the Haitai Tigers. The Tigers are members of the KBO League and are the most successful ...

Career

Upon graduation from Shinil High School, Park was selected 48th overall by the

LG Twins The LG Twins () are a South Korean professional baseball team based in Seoul, South Korea. They are a member of the KBO League. The Twins play their home games at Jamsil Baseball Stadium, which they share with their rivals, the Doosan Bears. ...

in the 2008 KBO draft, but decided to play college baseball. After graduating from

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, he was selected 47th overall by the

Doosan Bears The Doosan Bears () are a South Korean professional baseball team based in Seoul. Founded in 1982, they are a member of the KBO League. The Bears have won six Korean Series titles (1982, 1995, 2001, 2015, 2016, and 2019) and play their home game ...

in the 2012 draft. After spending two mediocre seasons in the Bears, he temporarily left the team to serve a two-year mandatory military commitment. He played for the Sangmu Phoenix as the military duty in 2014 and 2015. In 2019 Park was named as the Bears' starting catcher after KBO's best catcher Yang Eui-ji's departure to the

via free agency. Park set the KBO single-season record for the most triples by a catcher with nine in the 2019 season. On October 25 Park hit a triple in Game 3 of the 2019 Korean Series which made him become the sixth catcher to hit a triple in the Korean Series. Park batted .417 (5-for-12) with four RBIs as the Bears swept the

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in four games in the Korean Series.

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*Career statistics and player information fro
Korea Baseball Organization
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