Lee Bum-ho, who was named the 11th manager of the Kia Tigers on Wednesday, is the KBO’s first manager born in the 1980s.
Lee was born in 1981 and became a manager at the age of 42. Previously, the youngest active managers were Park Jin-man of the Samsung Lions and Lee Seung-yup of the Doosan Bears. They were both born in 1976, five years older than Lee. Lee’s appointment marks the first time the KBO has had a manager born in 1980.
The American Major League Baseball (MLB) and Nippon Professional Baseball (NPB) both had managers born in the 80s before the KBO. In Japan, which is quite conservative and still shows a high level of respect for baseball managers, the oldest manager is Akinobu Okada of the Hanshin Tigers. He was born in 1957 and is 66 years old this year. 카지노사이트 While most of the clubs are led by managers born in the 1960s and 1970s, Toshiaki Imae of the Rakuten Golden Eagles is the youngest, born in 1983.
Imae is a similar case to Lee Bum-ho.
Although he played for Chiba Lotte Marines rather than Rakuten during his playing career, he spent the last part of his playing career at Rakuten and started his coaching career at Rakuten. He started his coaching career at Rakuten and was promoted to the second team, then the first team, and then became the first team coach while still coaching the first team, an internal promotion. This is very similar to Lee Bum-ho, who made his professional debut with the Hanwha Eagles but spent the second half of his playing career with KIA before becoming a coach.
Although not born in the 1980s, Shinnosuke Abe of the Yomiuri Giants, who was born in 1979, is a similar story. Abe was a legendary catcher for the Yomiuri Giants, and after retiring from active play, he worked his way up the managerial ladder by managing the second team. He was appointed as the first team manager after Tatsunori Hara stepped down.
With 30 clubs, the MLB has a diverse age range of managers. The oldest active manager is Ron Washington, who took over as the new manager of the Los Angeles Angels this season. Washington was born in 1952, making him a 71-year-old “veteran”. While veterans from the 1950s, such as Atlanta Braves manager Brian Snitker (born 1955), Colorado Rockies manager Bud Black (born 1957), Milwaukee Brewers manager Pat Murphy (born 1958), and Texas Rangers manager Bruce Bochy (born 1955), have been recognized by the league for their undying passion, there has been a recent surge of younger managers born in the 1980s.
The youngest active manager to hold the title is Oliver Marmol of the St. Louis Cardinals.
Born in 1986, Mamol is the youngest manager in Korea, the United States, and Japan. At 38 years old, Mamol’s peers in the KBO include Jeon Jun-woo (Lotte), Park Byung-ho (KT), and Lee Won-seok (Kiwoom). When he was first appointed in 2022, he was only 36 years old. There were good reasons behind the unconventional choice. After St. Louis parted ways with the experienced Mike Schildt, the search for a new manager began and Mamol, 토토사이트 추천 who had worked his way up through the organization’s minor league ranks, was the right man for the job. It was an internal promotion.
In the U.S. and Japan, there are many cases of people who have been recognized for their qualities from within and became managers at a young age, such as Cleveland Indians manager Stephen Vogt, born in 1984, who became a manager of another team just one year after retiring as a player. Also, Minnesota Twins manager Rocco Baldelli, born in 1981, was hired from the outside rather than promoted from within.