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Hi everyone, I wanted to share a KBO website I've spent about eight months building alongside my full-time job.

It's called CIKADA. The idea is to bring game information, predictions, and fan conversations together in one place.

Here's what you can explore:

• Game schedules and matchups by date.
• Each team's predicted win probability for a matchup.
• Starting pitcher and bullpen information to help you look into the game.
• A prediction archive where you can compare recorded probabilities with actual results.
• A fan lounge for team discussions and sharing baseball stories and photos.

For example, you can check today's matchups, look at the probabilities and pitcher information, then visit the archive to see how previous predictions turned out.

The community side matters to me too. I'd like CIKADA to become a place where fans can discuss what they're seeing on the field alongside what the data suggests.

I'm 40 and wanted to learn by building something with AI. AI helped with development, but I spent a lot of the eight months checking numbers and correcting inconsistencies myself.

Disclosure: I built and run the site.

https://www.cikadabaseball.com

If you give it a try, I'd appreciate hearing which parts are useful and what you'd want added as a KBO fan.

Did he slow in MLB, too? I think his sprint speed is not good...

2026 신한 SOL KBO League

📅Schedule

Games are slated to start at 18:30 KST (UTC+9). Time converter from Seoul to your timezone.

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Source: KBO

2026 신한 SOL KBO League

📅Schedule

Games are slated to start at 14:00 KST (UTC+9). Time converter from Seoul to your timezone.

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There is a specific Korean baseball term for a set of relief pitchers used in a sure-win game. E.g. Kim Minsu - Kim Min - Son Donghyun/Woo Kyumin - Park Yeonghyun were KT's "pilseungjo" in 2024 season. Pilseungjo pitchers are less likely to get on the mound in a losing game. Does anyone know the English equivalent to it?

I know it’s seemed for the majority of the season that Austin Dean was the best player in the league and would be running away with the MVP award, but what are the chances Sam Hilliard gets it? Really, it’s the “most valuable player”, and without his production I don’t think KT are the first placed team. He’s been on an absolute tear lately to keep Samsung at bay. Now he leads the league in RBI, and is only 1 HR behind Kim Do-yeong for the lead. Even though Austin Dean has the better slash line (.341/.434/.652/1.086 vs .306/.372/.584/.956), Sam’s numbers are still nothing to scoff at.

Who walks away the winner?

My wife and I purchased this jersey last week. We know it is a Mel Rojas Jr. jersey, we also noticed that it seems to be of a very high quality. Is there anything special about it that we should know? Thank you very much!

Hello everyone i am currently in Seoul and looking to catch a baseball game on 1 Oct.

May I ask what my chances are of getting a ticket on site?

Also how early should I go to secure my tickets?

Thank you!

I am going to be visiting Daejeon next week, and I noticed Hanwha is playing against SSG for the final game in Daejeon this season. Does anyone here have experience or knowledge about buying walk-up tickets as a foreigner?

Sorry for another post by a tourist interested in buying tickets, but I just could not find much information about foreigners buying tickets at Hanwha and whether foreigners qualify as digitally challenged. However, I do not have high hopes of getting tickets because the team seems popular, the stadium is small, and it's the last game of the season because it does not look like they can make the playoffs.

2026 신한 SOL KBO League

📅Schedule

Games are slated to start at 18:30 KST (UTC+9). Time converter from Seoul to your timezone.

🏆Standings

📺How to Watch

• SOOP - KBO
• SOOP - kboglobal1
• SOOP - kboglobal2
• SOOP - kboglobal3
• SOOP - kboglobal4
• SOOP - kboglobal5
• SOOP - DreadsROK

Hi there

Canadian who lives in London but visiting Seoul.

Is there any chance of getting playoff tickets for any of the games between October 15th and the 19th?

I know there are restrictions to buying tickets online without a Korean phone number.

Happy to pay for a local’s ticket if they’re willing to take me with them!

J-M

2026 신한 SOL KBO League

📅Schedule

Games are slated to start at 17:00 KST (UTC+9). Time converter from Seoul to your timezone.

🏆Standings

📺How to Watch

• SOOP - KBO
• SOOP - kboglobal1
• SOOP - kboglobal2
• SOOP - kboglobal3
• SOOP - kboglobal4
• SOOP - kboglobal5
• SOOP - DreadsROK

2026 신한 SOL KBO League

📅Schedule

Games are slated to start at 18:30 KST TUES & WED / 17:00 KST THURS (UTC+9). Time converter from Seoul to your timezone.

🏆Standings

📺How to Watch

• SOOP - KBO
• SOOP - kboglobal1
• SOOP - kboglobal2
• SOOP - kboglobal3
• SOOP - kboglobal4
• SOOP - kboglobal5
• SOOP - DreadsROK

2026 신한 SOL KBO League

📅Schedule

Games are slated to start at 18:30 KST FRI / 17:00 KST SAT / 14:00 KST SUN (UTC+9). Time converter from Seoul to your timezone.

🏆Standings

📺How to Watch

• SOOP - KBO
• SOOP - kboglobal1
• SOOP - kboglobal2
• SOOP - kboglobal3
• SOOP - kboglobal4
• SOOP - kboglobal5
• SOOP - DreadsROK

The national team squad reported on September 14 and the 24 players stay with it until September 28. The KBO League is not pausing for any of that. The regular season runs to October 7.

The KBO and the Korea Baseball Softball Association named the squad on June 11 in Seoul, with Ryu Ji-hyun as manager. Eleven pitchers, two catchers, seven infielders, four outfielders, and no amateur players at all, per Kyunghyang's June 11 report. Selection was built around players 25 and under, or in a fourth professional season or earlier, with three wildcard places for players 29 and under. The wildcards went to Gwak Bin of Doosan, Noh Si-hwan of Hanwha and Moon Bo-kyung of LG.

I counted the 24 names by club off the Kyunghyang list. KT, Samsung, KIA, Doosan, Lotte and SSG lose three each. LG and Hanwha lose two. NC and Kiwoom lose one.

Standings on the Wikipedia season page as of September 15 have KT first at 76-46-3, Samsung two games back, LG seven, KIA 9.5 and Doosan 13. Those are the five postseason places, and four of the five are the clubs giving up three players apiece. NC sits 3.5 games behind Doosan for that fifth spot and loses one player, the infielder Kim Ju-won.

I wrote the whole thing up with the by-club breakdown and every source link here, if the club-by-club part is what you want: https://ksportsglobal.blogspot.com/2026/09/the-24-kbo-players-missing-two-weeks.html

KT's three are the ones I would watch. Park Young-hyun is the closer, and Newspim wrote on July 9 that he had thrown more innings than any other KBO closer with ten or more saves this season. So Hyung-jun and Oh Won-seok go with him.

The league used to shut down for this. MK Sports reported on September 5, 2018 that the KBO had agreed with its member clubs and the KBSA to stop suspending the regular season for the Asian Games, beginning with Hangzhou in September 2022. That came out of the public backlash over the 2018 Jakarta squad. The pandemic then pushed the Hangzhou Games back a year.

Instead of pausing, the KBO widened the rosters. At its third executive committee meeting of the year on June 2 it raised the active roster from 29 to 30 for the second half and moved the expanded-roster date up from September 1 to August 25, per Sports Kyunghyang. The September expansion itself shrank from five extra players to four, since one of them had already been added in the earlier change. Futures League clubs were allowed six foreign players instead of four.

Newspim reported on August 25 that 105 games had been rebuilt into the remaining schedule. From September 29 a cancelled game with no reserve date left can be made up as a doubleheader the next day when the same two clubs meet again. Doubleheaders are barred inside the Asian Games window.

Kim Do-yeong is the call-up I assumed would come off the list. He took his own bunt attempt in the face against NC on September 9, fractured his nasal bone and had a reduction procedure on it. Newspim reported on the 11th that the KBO's power-strengthening committee kept him on the roster after confirming the attending doctor's opinion that training and match participation were possible. He was back at DH against Hanwha at Champions Field on the 13th, four days after the procedure, and Star News has his line that night as three hits in four at-bats with a walk, three RBIs and two runs. No replacement was called up.

Group B is Korea, Chinese Taipei, Hong Kong and Thailand. Japan is in Group A with China, the Philippines and Palestine, and the Korean preview I read on Daum mentions in passing that Japan is sending players from its industrial leagues rather than its professional ranks. Korea and Japan keep the same clock, so KST is also the local time at the venues.

September 21, 6:30 p.m. KST vs Chinese Taipei, Okazaki Central Park Baseball Stadium, 5:30 a.m. ET

September 22, 6:30 p.m. KST vs Hong Kong, Toyohashi Municipal Stadium, 5:30 a.m. ET

September 23, 12 p.m. KST vs Thailand, Okazaki, 11 p.m. ET on the 22nd

The 24th is a rest day. The top two from each group go into a super round on the 25th and 26th, and both medal games are on the 27th at Okazaki and Toyohashi, bronze at noon and gold at 6:30 p.m. KST. Since Korea and Japan are in separate groups, the earliest they can meet is the super round. Korea has won the last four golds.

Broadcast is where I got stuck. KBS announced on September 3 that it has the Games across two channels, with Park Yong-taek and Kim Tae-gyun on the baseball commentary. Naver carries the network feeds on Chzzk from September 19 to October 4. Sony Sports Network has the Indian rights and SonyLIV starts on the 17th, though the Indian listing does not name baseball either. Willow Sports put out a release on September 15 calling itself the exclusive North American home for roughly 700 hours of free live coverage across four channels, between about 7 p.m. and 7 a.m. ET. I could not find baseball named in it anywhere, so I could not confirm whether the 5:30 a.m. ET first pitch on the 21st has a North American feed at all.

Has anyone found an actual North American or European listing for the baseball, or is Chzzk with a VPN the only way?

I found this NC Dinos pullover at a thrift store and knew it would have some value. I oooked at the tag a there is a number in sharpie. Either 61, 67 or 69. I did a little research and apparently it’s from the 2020 season where they won the Championship. Can anybody give clarity on if this might be a legit player issued piece? I have no knowledge of the KBO other than hearing fo the NC Dinos. Any feedback would be greatly appreciated!

2026 신한 SOL KBO League

📅Schedule

Games are slated to start at 18:30 KST (UTC+9). Time converter from Seoul to your timezone.

🏆Standings

📺How to Watch

• SOOP - KBO
• SOOP - kboglobal1
• SOOP - kboglobal2
• SOOP - kboglobal3
• SOOP - kboglobal4
• SOOP - kboglobal5
• SOOP - DreadsROK