Lotte Giants slugger Lee Dae-ho will be the highest-paid player in the top South Korean baseball league for the third straight season.
According to the Korea Baseball Organization, which announced its league-wide salary data for the 2019 season today, Lee tops all players with an annual salary of 2.5 billion won.
After spending the 2016 season with Major League Baseball's Seattle Mariners, Lee re-joined the Giants before the 2017 season on a four-year contract worth 15 billion won - 10 billion won in guaranteed salary and 5 billion won in signing bonus.■
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