Byung-ho Park, who played for the Minnesota Twins in 2016, has retired from the KBO at age 39.
The Twins paid a posting fee of $12.85 million and signed Park to a four-year, $12 million contract after his back-to-back 50-homer seasons for Nexen in 2014 and ’15, but it just didn’t work out. He hit .191/.275/.409 with 12 homers in 62 games before being sent down. He remained with the club as a Triple-A player in 2017, but he was then released to return to Korea. Park finishes his career fourth on the KBO all-time list with 418 homers.