SSG Choi Jeong, KBO League June Monthly MVP Award… The record for most home runs
SSG Landers infielder Choi Jeong was selected as the monthly MVP in June of the 2023 Shinhan Bank SOL KBO League. Lee Seung-yeop (currently Doosan manager) is also approaching the KBO League record for the most home runs.
Choi Jeong received a total of 55.62 votes with 21 out of 29 votes (72.4%) and 155,287 out of 400,002 fan votes (38.8%) and was honored to be selected as the monthly MVP for the first time in four years since June 2019.
SSG topped the team's home run list with 34 home runs in June. Among them, Choi Jung recorded the most home runs in the team. As of the 10th, Choi Jung, who is tied for the lead in this category with 19 home runs this season, hit 11 home runs in June alone.
Choi Jeong, who won the home run category in June, recorded home runs in three consecutive games from the Jamsil Doosan Bears match on the 22nd to the Munhak Samsung Lions match on the 24th. In addition, he hit at-bat home runs in games on the 1st and 23rd, raising his batting average index.
Thanks to his explosive home run, Choi also topped both categories with 27 RBIs and a .787 slugging percentage. With OPS 1.218, he ranked second in scoring (23 points) and fourth in on-base percentage (0.431), ranking at the top of the most batting performance.
If Choi Jung, who has a personal record of 448 home runs, continues to maintain his current pace, it is worth aiming to surpass Lee Seung-yeop (former Samsung, 467 home runs) within this year to become the No. 1 KBO League home run.
Choi Jeong, who was selected as the MVP in June, will be given 2 million won in prize money, and a donation of 2 million won will also be delivered to Pyeongchon Middle School, Choi Jeong's middle school.