Just want to take a quick minute and give props to Topps for the inclusion of the Korean League statistics on Hyun-Jin Ryu’s 2014 Topps and Topps Opening Day releases. To my knowledge this is the first time Topps — or any company for that matter — has included full, year-by-year statistics for a player who has come to Major League Baseball from a professional league in another country. It’s nice to see how a player faired against competition elsewhere, even if the statistics don’t exactly translate to MLB.

**edited: Commenter advises 2001 Topps Ichiro rookie card has year-by-year Japanese statistics. Good call, I stand corrected.

This entry was posted on March 27, 2014 at 6:51 pm and is filed under Newspaperman with tags baseball, baseball cards, Dodgers, Hyun-Jim ryu, Topps. You can follow any responses to this entry through the RSS 2.0 feed. You can leave a response, or trackback from your own site.