The 2025 professional baseball league has many new rules introduced or changed starting this season to strengthen the fairness of the league and introduce more exciting baseball. Amid the changed regulations, abundant records are expected to be used again this year.토토사이트

First, pitch clock will be officially introduced, and overtime innings will be reduced. Pitchers must pitch within 20 seconds when there is no runner, and within 25 seconds when there is a runner. In addition, the catcher should be positioned at the position nine seconds before the end of the pitch clock, and the batter should be ready to hit at the batter's box eight seconds before the end of the pitch clock. In this exhibition game, there were a total of 17 violations (13 pitches for pitchers and four pitches for batters). The KBO expects that this will shorten the duration of the game. On top of that, overtime, which used to run up to 12 innings of the regular season, will be reduced to the 11th inning.
 

The strike zone of the automatic pitching determination system also collected voices from the field, and the top and bottom parts decreased by 0.6 percentage point, respectively, starting this season. In addition, the scope of video review has expanded to include fair/foul batting at home and outside, or foul/false swing readings by batters.

Amid changing regulations to improve performance, new records are also in abundance this year. Choi Jeong (SSG), who ranks first in home runs in the KBO league, will become the first batter with 500 home runs if he crosses the fence five more times. On top of this, Choi will challenge for the first time in 10 consecutive seasons to achieve 20 home runs and 10 home runs for 20 consecutive seasons. Park Hae-min (LG), who ranks first in stolen bases with 411 steals, will also challenge for the first time in 12 consecutive seasons.

Oh Seung-hwan of the Samsung Lions, who broke the record for the oldest save this season, is set to become the oldest winning pitcher and hold again this season. If Oh, who is 42 years old, eight months and five days old as of Tuesday, takes the mound after Sept. 8, and becomes the winning pitcher, he will break Song Jin-woo's previous record of 43 years, one month, and 23 days in 16 years. Attention is focusing on whether he will be able to break Song's 43 years, one month, and 26 days in the hold category as well. Yang Hyeon-jong (KIA) is aiming at pitching in 100 innings for the first time in 12 consecutive seasons and achieving 100 strikeouts for 11 consecutive seasons. Hanwha manager Kim Kyung-moon is aiming at his third 1,000th win in the KBO league, following former managers Kim Eung-yong (1554 wins) and Kim Seong-geun (1,338 wins). Kim Kyung-moon, who garnered 938 wins (31 draws and 818 losses), needs to win at least 62 wins to achieve 1,000 wins. Last year, Hanwha had 66 wins.