{"id":299694,"date":"2025-11-21T17:34:29","date_gmt":"2025-11-21T17:34:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/299694\/"},"modified":"2025-11-21T17:34:29","modified_gmt":"2025-11-21T17:34:29","slug":"sung-mun-song-posted-can-sign-with-mlb-teams-through-dec-21","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/299694\/","title":{"rendered":"Sung-mun Song posted, can sign with MLB teams through Dec. 21"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>NEW YORK &#8212; South Korean infielder Sung-mun Song is entering Major League Baseball&#8217;s posting system and will be available for teams to sign from Saturday through Dec. 21.<\/p>\n<p>Song hit .315 with a career-high 26 homers and 90 RBIs this year for South Korea&#8217;s Kiwoom Heroes. Primarily a third baseman, the 29-year-old left-handed hitter has a .284 average with 80 homers and 454 RBIs in nine seasons with Nexen (2015, &#8217;17-18) and Kiwoom (2019, &#8217;21-25).<\/p>\n<p>While the posting period for players from Japanese clubs is 45 days, it is 30 days for players from South Korean teams.<\/p>\n<p>Editor&#8217;s Picks<a name=\"&amp;lpos=story:editorspicks:inline:1\" href=\"https:\/\/www.espn.com.au\/mlb\/story\/_\/id\/46845936\/mlb-2025-26-free-agency-tracker-offseason-trades-moves\" class=\"img-link\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/1763746469_175_r1516237_1296x1296_1-1.jpg&#038;w=130&#038;h=130&#038;scale=crop&#038;location=center.jpeg\" width=\"65\" height=\"65\"\/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Under MLB&#8217;s posting agreement with the KBO League, the posting fee would be 20% of the first $25 million of a major league contract, including earned bonuses and options. The percentage drops to 17.5% of the next $25 million and 15% of any amount over $50 million. There would be a supplemental fee of 15% of any earned bonuses, salary escalators and exercised options.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"NEW YORK &#8212; South Korean infielder Sung-mun Song is entering Major League Baseball&#8217;s posting system and will be&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":299695,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[558],"tags":[64,63,591,85],"class_list":{"0":"post-299694","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-mlb","8":"tag-au","9":"tag-australia","10":"tag-mlb","11":"tag-sports"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/299694","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=299694"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/299694\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/299695"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=299694"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=299694"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=299694"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}