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2008 Korea Professional Baseball season

The 2008 Korea Professional Baseball season, officially known as the Samsung PAVV Pro Baseball 2008 (Korean: 2008 삼성 PAVV 프로야구) for sponsorship reasons, was the 27th season in the history of the KBO League, this was the first season with the Heroes, that had replaced the now-folded Hyundai Unicorns.

The champions of the season were the SSG Langers known as SK Wyverns at that time.

Season structure

Season format

  • Regular Season: 126 games for each team
  • Semiplayoff: regular-season 3rd place vs. regular-season 4th place – best of 5
  • Playoff: regular-season 2nd place vs. Semiplayoff winner – best of 7
  • Korean Series: regular-season 1st place vs. Playoff winner – best of 7

Final standings

  • Champion (1st place): Korean Series winner
  • Runner-up (2nd place): Korean Series loser
  • 3rd–8th place: sort by regular-season record except teams to play in the Korean Series

Sponsorship change

Hyundai stopped their sponsorship after the 2007 season, and the Unicorns were renamed the Woori Heroes after Centennial Investments sold the naming rights to the Woori Tobacco Company. They also announced possible player salary reductions.

Standings

Postseason

Semiplayoff

Samsung Lions win the series, 3–0

Playoff

Doosan Bears win the series, 4–2

Korean Series

SK Wyverns win the series, 4–1

Foreign hitters

Statistics

Team statistics

References

External links