{"id":372511,"date":"2025-12-28T06:34:08","date_gmt":"2025-12-28T06:34:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/372511\/"},"modified":"2025-12-28T06:34:08","modified_gmt":"2025-12-28T06:34:08","slug":"former-giants-infielder-retires-after-18-years-in-professional-baseball","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/372511\/","title":{"rendered":"Former Giants infielder retires after 18 years in professional baseball"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>It was a long baseball journey.<\/p>\n<p>And now, Jae-gyun Hwang is hanging up his cleats.<\/p>\n<p>The former <a href=\"https:\/\/www.sportingnews.com\/ca\/mlb\/san-francisco-giants\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">San Francisco Giants<\/a> infielder has announced his retirement.<\/p>\n<p>Hwang came to MLB in 2017 and was solid in Triple-A, with a .285 average and 10 home runs in 98 games.<\/p>\n<p>But with the Giants, Hwang went just 8-for-52.<\/p>\n<p>His first MLB hit was a home run off Kyle Freeland in his third at bat.<\/p>\n<p>MORE:\u00a0<a target=\"\" href=\"https:\/\/www.sportingnews.com\/ca\/mlb\/news\/team-usa-projected-wbc-lineup-bryce-harper-news\/8f6511f6d5033b252b594217\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Team USA&#8217;s projected WBC lineup is incredible<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Hwang had begun his career with a decade in the Korea Baseball Organization before signing with the Giants.<\/p>\n<p>He was outrighted off the 40-man roster in September 2017, less than a full season into his time in MLB.<\/p>\n<p>At that point, Hwang opted to depart from MLB and return to the KBO.<\/p>\n<p>He signed with the KT Wiz, and he spent the last eight seasons of his career there.<\/p>\n<p>Hwang finished his career in the KBO with 2,197 hits, which included 221 home runs, and he also stole 217 bases.<\/p>\n<p>He didn&#8217;t quite make it work in MLB, but he had a long and successful career in Korea. Now, he&#8217;s calling it quits.<\/p>\n<p>More MLB news:<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"It was a long baseball journey. And now, Jae-gyun Hwang is hanging up his cleats. The former San&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":372512,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[435],"tags":[49,48,462,82],"class_list":{"0":"post-372511","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-mlb","8":"tag-ca","9":"tag-canada","10":"tag-mlb","11":"tag-sports"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/372511","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=372511"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/372511\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/372512"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=372511"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=372511"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=372511"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}