Infielder Lee Hyun-seung, who improved his skills in club baseball, not in the official school baseball team, joined the Pittsburgh Pirates of the Major League Baseball (MLB).

The Pittsburgh club said on the 16th (Korea Standard Time) that it signed a minor league contract with Lee Hyun-seung.먹튀검증

Baseball America, a U.S. baseball magazine, evaluated Lee Hyun-seung's bat speed is good and his slugging power is expected.

Lee Hyun-seung, born in 2008, is a right-handed left-handed shortstop with a physique of 183 centimeters and a weight of 77 kilograms.

Lee Hyun-seung started playing baseball for Eunpyeong BC, a club baseball team, in his first year of middle school.

Lee Hyun-seung, who showed rapid growth, did not go to high school after graduating from middle school and trained individually for a year before signing a contract with Pittsburgh.

Pittsburgh is a club with deep ties to Korean players.

In the past, Park Chan-ho, Kang Jung-ho, Choi Ji-man, and Park Hyo-joon played for Pittsburgh, and Bae Ji-hwan is currently in charge.

Bae Ji-hwan, who signed with Pittsburgh in 2018, has been playing in the big leagues since 2022.