How Much Is Going to Be Kim Byung-Hyun`s Next Year Salary?

Party is not over yet.

The baseball fever of the major league usually drops after the World Series. But for Kim Byung-Hyun (22, Arizona Diamondbacks), the first Korean player to put on the championship ring, and Park Chan-Ho (28, LA Dodgers) who is becoming a free agent, off-season is a new beginning. What sort of hot issues left in the stove league?

▽ What is going to be next year`s salary of closer Kim Byung-Hyun?

Miserably, the plausible answer is the lowest salary in the major league. Kim Byung-Hyun signed a contract of 2,250,000 dollars only on terms of four-year lowest salary. This year`s salary was 205,000 dollars. Even though he was qualified to negotiate the annual salary after completing three seasons, there is no room for more negotiation unless he moves to other team.

But the Arizona might offer a long-term contract in order to retain promising young player Kim Byung-Hyun. In this case, Kim`s salary might soar up over 10 times. In the beginning of this season, team`s former closer Matt Mantei signed a four-year contract of 22 million dollars.

▽ Special Bonus Much More Than Salary

Kim Byung-Hyun receives a victory bonus of 350,000 dollars (about 450 million won), 1.5 times more than his salary as a leading figure of title winning. In the major league, the champion team takes 36 percent of postseason ticket sales. This year, the Arizona can receive about 11.5 million dollars (about 15 billion won). Besides, in spite of being a main culprit behind two wretched come-from-behind defeats, Kim rose up as one of the most popular player in the United States, flooding with CF offers of the domestic companies.

▽ What sorts of win ceremony are there?

The Arizona Diamondbacks will celebrate their first World Series with a parade by fire engines in Phoenix on 8th. But missing this parade, Kim Byung-Hyun plans to return home via the Asiana Airlines leaving at 6: 40 pm on 9th. During visit to Korea, he is scheduled to participate in the events for the domestic fans and the campaign for needy neighborhood in the end of the year.

Meanwhile, it is reported that the World Series game seven held 39.1 million American peoples including 80 percent of Phoenix citizens and 53 percent of New Yorkers, and 155 million peoples around the world in front of TV screen. It had an audience rating of 23.5 percent and a channel share of 34 percent, exceeding more than two times over the audience number of Emmy Award ceremony televised via the CBS.