Choi Jung signs 3rd free agent contract with SSG for 4 years and 11 billion won... totaling '300 billion won era'!

Choi Jung signs 3rd free agent contract with SSG for 4 years and 11 billion won... totaling '300 billion won era'!

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Professional baseball's leading slugger Choi Jung-soo, 37, has set a new KBO League record for total free agent signings by signing a four-year, 11 billion won contract with SSG.

SSG announced today (June 6) that it has signed Choi for a total of 11 billion won ($3 billion in signing bonus and $8 billion in annual salary) over four years. The fully guaranteed contract will keep the 1987-born Choi on the field until 2028, when he will be 41 years old.

Choi also wrote a new history of multi-year contracts in the KBO. Choi first became a free agent in 2015, signing a four-year, 8.6 billion won ($8.6 million) deal, 메이저사이트 and in 2019, he signed a six-year, 10.6 billion won deal. With his three free agent contracts, Choi ushered in the era of multi-year contracts totaling 30 billion won ($30.2 billion).

This is the highest total for a multi-year contract in KBO history, surpassing the 27.7 billion won that Doosan catcher Yang Yang-ji earned in two free agency deals (4 years, 12.5 billion won with NC in 2019 and 6 years, 15.2 billion won with Doosan in 2023).

Choi joined SK (now SSG) with the first overall pick in 2005, and through 20 seasons, he has amassed a career batting average of 2.888, 2,269 hits (6th all-time), 495 home runs (1st), 4,197 runs batted in (1st), 1,561 RBI (2nd), 1,461 runs scored (1st), and 1,037 strikeouts (5th all-time) in 2,293 games.