Superstar Kim Do-young (21, KIA Tigers), who represents the KBO League, has also begun to pay attention to the U.S. Major League Baseball (MLB).먹튀검증

Shim Jae-hak, head of the KIA team, said on the 11th (Korea Standard Time), "The head of CAA Sports visited our camp and saw Kim Do-young."

The person Shim talked about is Nez Valero, the representative agent in the baseball sector of CAA (Creative Artist Agency), the largest agent in the U.S., which encompasses sports and entertainment.

Valero, who is familiar to domestic baseball fans as an agent of Shohei Ohtani (Los Angeles Dodgers), is also the person who attracted a 10-year contract worth 700 million dollars (about 1 trillion won), the highest amount in professional sports ever.

Valero, once an infield prospect who dreamed of entering the big leagues, fell while working as a minor leaguer at a construction site to keep his family healthy and seriously injured, giving up his dream of baseball.

CEO Valero, who retired early and started his agent job at the age of 27, contributed to the "birth of legend" by promising an unconditional pitching and hitting job from the Los Angeles Angels when Ohtani entered MLB.

According to KIA team officials, Valero watched Kim Do-young, who was training at the Great Ball Park in Irvine, California on the 4th.

Kim Do-young, who joined KIA in 2022, has now played three seasons in the KBO League.

Last year, he hit .347, 189 hits, 38 homers, 40 steals, 109 RBIs, 143 runs, on-base plus slugging percentage (OPS) 1.067 in 141 games and became the MVP of the KBO League.

Kim Do-young, who has three beats with accurate contact, long-shot power and baserunning ability, is considered the most likely candidate to cross MLB in the KBO League if he maintains his current growth.

Kim Do-young has to play for at least four more seasons to knock on the MLB door through posting (closed competitive bidding).

In addition, the 2026 Aichi and Nagoya Asian Games and 2028 Los Angeles Olympics must be qualified for military service before the 2028 season is over.

CAA is an agent with numerous star players besides Ohtani.

Korean national soccer team Son Heung-min (Tottenham Hotspur), professional gamer "Faker" Lee Sang-hyuk (T1), and actors Lee Jung-jae and Jung Ho-yeon belong to CAA.

Former U.S. President Joe Biden also recently signed a contract with the CAA and began sharing the same boat.