(KRON) — Spring Coaching is underway, and baseball is again within the highlight. The San Francisco Giants are in Scottsdale, Ariz. to prepare for the 2025 MLB season, together with considered one of its workforce’s greatest free company signings lately. Off of a 2024 rookie season that was minimize quick on account of damage, outfielder Jung Hoo Lee is wholesome and again in uniform for his second yr with the Giants.
Lee, a baseball star in his native South Korea, is in his second yr residing in the USA and is having fun with the perks that include residing in California. The 26-year-old was requested by KNBR this week to call one factor he needs his house nation had. He replied with one easy reply.
In-N-Out.
“My favorite food,” Lee mentioned with the assistance of a translator. “I walk over there to the counter and said ‘Double-Double.’ Every time they do a great job in making me a Double-Double.”
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On the flip aspect, Lee was requested if there was one thing in Korea that he wished San Francisco had. Lee mentioned San Francisco and Korea have lots of the similar issues. One lacking amenity he’d add to San Francisco is public saunas.
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Jung Hoo Lee #51 of the San Francisco Giants appears to be like on within the dugout earlier than the sport in opposition to the Arizona Diamondbacks at Oracle Park on April 18, 2024. (Picture by Lachlan Cunningham/Getty Photos)
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Whereas Lee might not have the ability to take pleasure in a public sauna within the streets of San Francisco anytime quickly, he at the least can take pleasure in an In-N-Out Double-Double as there may be one conveniently positioned in San Francisco’s Fisherman’s Wharf neighborhood.
The Giants signed the 2022 KBO league MVP to a six-year, $113 million contract in December of 2023. Lee is reportedly capable of decide out of the contract after 4 years into the deal.
Lee’s rookie season was minimize quick in 2024 after solely enjoying 37 video games. He suffered a season-ending shoulder damage in Could after making an attempt to catch a flyball.
