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The sportscaster's corner

This is a podcast that discusses games and events of the KBO

Yunho Lee calls the season from Busan: a review within a day of most Lotte games, a profile or a career when the calendar allows, and the whole league at the break. The platform carries the numbers underneath each one — the box score of the game reviewed, the season line of the player profiled — written here, not transcribed from the air.

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Episodes

31

since June

Game reviews

23

120 Lotte games played

Minutes on air

143

and counting

Opponents covered

9

most: Samsung ×5

On air

Latest episode

Game review · 4:32

9/1 Lotte Giants and Samsung Lions game review

Sep 1 · Daegu18:30

Lotte · Form

28

5266 · rank 8 · wOBA .334 · FIP 4.48

Lotte Giants · 120 games

The season, on air

Every Giants game this season, oldest first. A filled diamond is a win, an open one a loss. The games with an amber ring are the ones the show reviewed — click one to hear it.

23 Episodes

Game reviews

Recorded within a day of the final out. Each review sits next to the box score of the game it covers and the season series it belongs to.

September 20261 reviews

August 20268 reviews

July 20266 reviews

June 20268 reviews

5 Episodes

Player profiles · Careers

Career retrospectives, active and retired. Retired subjects link to the archive ledger.

Jeon Jun-woo

Player profile · 5:45

Jeon Jun-woo

전준우 · LF

203 PA · .218 / .266 / .282 · 33 wRC+ · -1.27 WAR

A Giant since 2008 and the longest-serving hitter on the roster. The profile below is the platform's: his line this season against the league, the percentile bars, and the hitters who produce most like him.

Career · 3:45

Jung Hoon

정훈

An undrafted infielder who made the Giants as a walk-on and stayed for more than a decade. The kind of career the WAR column undersells, because most of its value was in being available.

Na Kyun-an

Career · 2:54

Na Kyun-an

나균안 · SP

120.67 IP · 4.03 ERA · 4.65 FIP · 1.63 WAR

Drafted as a catcher, converted to the mound, and now a fixture of the Lotte rotation. His FIP against his ERA this season is the number to watch: it says whether the results are running ahead of or behind the arm.

Lee Dae-ho

Career · 7:12

Lee Dae-ho

이대호 · 2001–2011, 2017–2022

.309, 374 HR, 1,425 RBI

The Busan first baseman who won seven batting titles in one summer, left for Japan and Seattle, and came back to finish where he started. The archive piece written alongside this episode recomputes his 2010 season in runs.

3 Episodes

League analysis

Episodes that step back to the whole league, paired with the standings, the lab and the league pulse.

League analysisAug 6 · 2:47

The problem with extreme heat

폭염으로 인한 문제

August in Korea is played in heat that changes the game: postponements, shortened outings, a run environment that drifts. The league-pulse strip on the overview is where that drift would show, if it shows at all.

League analysisAug 2 · 8:46

Predicting the 2027 free-agent market

2027 FA 시장 예측

The show's longest episode, on who will be for sale this winter and what they should cost. The lab's contract model is the platform's side of that argument: the price of one win, from each player, in this run environment.

Episode ids, titles, dates and durations come from the published Spotify feed. Finals come from the KBO's schedule service; team records are current as of the last data refresh, not as of the recording date.