KOREAN REPORTER SAYS KBO IMPORTS GETTING PAID UNDER TABLE

There has long been suspicion that import players in the Korea Baseball Organization are getting paid more money than their teams claim publicly, and a recent East Windup Chronicle interview with JoongAng sportswriter You Jee-hoo seems to offer confirmation. You told the website, “Teams have been known to pay players extra cash under the table…It’s an open secret: Everyone knows about it, but nobody talks about it.”


When the Kia Tigers signed American pitcher Rick Guttormsen, he became the eighth of 16 foreign players said to be earning the $300,000 maximum allowed for imports.

KBO Players Association secretary general Na Jin-gyun says, “I can’t believe the salary cap for foreign players in $300,000 per. That’s just too low.”