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Seung-Yeop Lee (born August 8 , 1976 in Daegu , Korea ) is a baseball player, currently playing for the Yomiuri Giants in the Japan 's Central League . Lee's nickname is the "Lion King". At the age of 26, he became the youngest professional baseball player in the world to hit 300 home runs. He also holds the Asian Home Run Record of 56 homers in a season, established in 2003 while playing for the Samsung Lions . Lee started his career with the Daegu Samsung Lions of the Korean Baseball Organization in 1995 and played with them for nine seasons. He then played for the Chiba Lotte Marines of Japan's Pacific League for two years. He has recently signed a one-year contract with the Yomiuri Giants for 210 million yen, including a 50 million yen signing bonus. He plays first base there. He has explicitly showed interests in making a move to Major League Baseball . He did have a slow start in Japan. Lee hit just 14 home runs and drove in 50 runs while batting .250 in 100 games. In the next season, he greatly improved, making 30 home runs and 82 RBI while batting .260 in 117 games. He was selected to play for the Korea National Baseball Team in the inaugural World Baseball Classic in 2006. He batted .333 and led all players in the tournament with 5 home runs and 10 RBI. This has increased speculation that an MLB team might eventually sign him. However, Lee is under contract to play with the Yomiuri Giants for the 2006 season. Lee is 6'1" and 187 pounds (85 kg). SEE ALSO EXTERNAL LINK |
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