[alone] Gwangju Il High School Right-hander Park Chan-min received an official offer in Philadelphia... ML at least 3 teams interested in 'contract size of $1 million or more'

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This is the dignity of Gwangju Jeil High School (Gwangju Il High School), which produces the most Korean major leaguers. Right-hander Park Chan-min (18) was offered by the Major League Baseball (ML) team this year, following Kim Sung-joon (19, Texas Rangers), a combined pitching and hitting job last year.

According to the Star News report on the 3rd, Park Chan-min received an official offer from Philadelphia. Philadelphia offered more than 1 million dollars (about 1.6 billion won). I don't know my future yet. This is because the New York Yankees, who can spend more than $4 million (about 6 billion won) in draft money this year, participated in the war.

Yankees' participation in this year's Major League Baseball is significant at a time when most of the 30 teams have exhausted their international contract draft money and are forced to postpone their official contract to January 2027. On top of that, it was confirmed that the Pittsburgh Pirates also showed interest in Park Chan-min.

Park Chan-min is a right-hander with a height of 191 centimeters and a weight of 94 kilograms based on the Korea Baseball Softball Association (KBSA). Throw sliders, curves, and changeups on balls up to 149 km per hour. Last year, he emerged as a promising player in the national league with two wins and no losses in five games and an ERA of 1.13 and six walks and 25 strikeouts in 16 ⅓ innings. Park Chan-min's greatest strength is his outstanding sense of development potential and control stemming from his large physique. It is evaluated that the slider and curve ball have also increased as he steadily throws a fastball of more than 145 kilometers per hour.

This year, he got off to his best start with a 0.00 ERA with three wins and no losses in five games and 30 strikeouts with two outs (one walk and one body hit) in 19 innings. At the same time, he emerged as the top candidate in the first round of the 2027 KBO Rookie Draft, which can threaten the existing big three (Ha Hyun-seung from Busan High School, Um Jun-sang from Deoksu High School, and Kim Ji-woo from Seoul High School).

A KBO scout said earlier this year, "Park Chan-min is one of the top three players. He also showed impressive performance in the Winter League. Even though he was not in normal condition, he threw a fastball of 145 kilometers per hour. He explained, "I have good RBIs and trajectories from my tall height." "He is a pitcher with high growth potential. There is a sense of control that is possible anywhere between the selection and the middle. He is good at fastball, slider, and curve because he has a good sense."

Park Chan-min took the mound from the fourth inning in the round of 32 strongest teams of Gimhae High School and Shinsegae E-Mart Cup National High School Baseball Competition held at Sunshine Miryang Sports Park in Miryang, Gyeongsangnam-do, and led Gwangju High School to a 9-7 victory and advance to the round of 16 by striking out three hits and no outs in five ⅔ (60 pitches).

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