Kim Tae-hyung
김태형
A 19-year-old right-handed pitcher for the KIA Tigers, drafted by KIA in 2025, first round, 5th overall. This is his 2nd season since a 2025 debut. This season, working mostly in starts: 3–4, a 4.99 ERA over 79.3 innings, 5.56 FIP and 0.32 WAR.
- Born
- 2006-12-15· 19
- Position
- Pitcher
- Bats / throws
- bats right, throws right
- Height · Weight
- 184 cm · 95 kg
- Draft
- Drafted by KIA in 2025, first round, 5th overall
- Debut
- 2025
Path화순초거원중덕수고
Percentile
Against the league
Percentile against every qualified pitcher in the league this season.
Workload
Pitches / inning
18.0
Pitches / batter
3.94
Fatigue index
105
100 is a league-typical workload. Above it, the arm is doing more work per out than the innings column suggests.
24 G
Pitching line
| IP | 79 1/3 | TBF | 363 |
| W | 3 | L | 4 |
| SV | 0 | HLD | 0 |
| H | 91 | HR | 11 |
| BB | 35 | HBP | 5 |
| SO | 52 | NP | 1,429 |
| R | 52 | ER | 44 |
| QS | 2 | BSV | 0 |
| CG | 0 | SHO | 0 |
Advanced
| ERA | 4.99 | FIP | 5.56 |
| E−F | −0.57 | WHIP | 1.59 |
| ERA+ | 93 | FIP+ | 84 |
| K/9 | 5.9 | BB/9 | 4.0 |
| HR/9 | 1.2 | K/BB | 1.49 |
| BABIP | .308 | LOB% | 68% |
| Opp AVG | .287 | WAR | 0.32 |
Nearest neighbours
Closest comparables
Nearest neighbours by standardised rate profile, not by reputation.
| Player | Team | IP | ERA | FIP | K% | BB% | HR/9 | WAR |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Toda | NC | 145 | 5.03 | 5.08 | 16.7% | 8.1% | 1.3 | 1.31 |
| Kim Jin-uk | Lotte | 144 1/3 | 4.12 | 4.70 | 19.6% | 8.1% | 1.1 | 1.88 |
| Koo Chang-mo | NC | 163 | 4.03 | 4.51 | 19.0% | 6.9% | 1.1 | 2.44 |
| Na Kyun-an | Lotte | 149 2/3 | 4.27 | 4.41 | 19.7% | 6.6% | 1.1 | 2.39 |
| Park Se-woong | Lotte | 147 1/3 | 4.64 | 4.25 | 19.1% | 8.0% | 0.7 | 2.60 |
Pitcher WAR is built from FIP, so it credits strikeouts, walks and home runs and stays neutral on everything the defence touched. Relief innings are not leverage-weighted, which understates a closer.