YANG Euiji

World Baseball Classic

Rank	Event	Year	Location
11	Baseball	2017

Premier 12

Rank	Event	Year	Location
1	Baseball	2015
2	Baseball	2019

World Cup

Rank	Event	Year	Location
9	Baseball	2009

Asian Games

Rank	Event	Year	Location
1	Baseball	2018	Indonesia

Golf. (ilyo.co.kr, 15 Jan 2019)

Athlete

Wife, one daughter [2016]

Korean

NC Dinos [Changwon, KOR] since 2019

Lee Dong-Wook [club], KOR; Kim Kyung-Moon [national], KOR

Catcher (koreabaseball.com, 01 Oct 2019)

Bats right, throws right (koreabaseball.com, 01 Oct 2019)

Korea Baseball Organisation [KOR] (koreabaseball.com, 06 Feb 2020)

He began the sport in grade four at the Songjeong Dong Elementary School in Gwangju, Republic of Korea. (news.chosun.com, 02 Sep 2009)

His father suggested the sport to him in order to lose weight. (donga.com, 25 Nov 2016H)

In 2019 he received the Player of the Year Award by the Korea Pro Baseball Players Alumni Association, and the Player of the Year Award at the 2019 Pro Baseball Sports Annual Awards Ceremony in the Republic of Korea. (news1.kr, 05 Dec 2019; news.sbs.co.kr, 05 Dec 2019)

He received a Korea Baseball Organisation [KBO] Golden Glove Award for a catcher in 2014, 2015, 2016, 2018 and 2019. (koreabaseball.com, 2019)

He received the Korean Series Most Valuable Player [MVP] Award at the 2016 KBO League Awards. (koreabaseball.com, 2016)

In 2010 he was named the KBO Rookie of the Year. He also received the Rookie of the Year Award at the Pro Baseball Grand Prize Ceremony in the Republic of Korea, and the Rookie of the Year Award at the 2010 Pro Baseball Sports TOTO Annual Awards Ceremony in the Republic of Korea. (inews24.com, 09 Dec 2010; hankyung.com, 08 Dec 2010; koreabaseball.com, 2010)