APBC Baseball Team: Doosan's Choi Min-seok and NC's Shin Young-woo Dropped Due to Elbow Injuries

Professional baseball right-handers Choi Min-seok of the Doosan Bears and Shin Young-woo of the NC Dinos will miss the 2026 Asia Professional Baseball Championship (APBC) due to right elbow injuries.

The Korea Baseball Organization (KBO) National Team Enhancement Committee announced on November 2 that Choi and Shin, both suffering from right elbow injuries, have been confirmed to miss the tournament.

The KBO announced a preliminary roster of 33 players on October 13, and the final tournament roster will consist of 28 players.

Five players from the Kia Tigers, who played in the playoffs, will join the national team starting from a practice game against the Sangmu Phoenix on November 6.

These players are Doyoung, Jaehyun, Seong Young-tak, Kwak Do-gyu, and Kim Tae-hyung.

The national team, led by manager Choi Won-ho, will begin live-in training starting today at Hanwha Life Ballpark in Daejeon.

After completing domestic training and practice games until November 8, the team will depart for Japan on November 9.

The tournament will be held from November 12 to 15 at the Tokyo Dome in Japan, featuring four countries: South Korea, Japan, Taiwan, and Australia.

South Korea will play its preliminary matches sequentially against Australia on November 12, Japan on November 13, and Taiwan on November 14.

The top two teams from the preliminaries will face each other in the final on November 15, while the remaining two teams will compete in the third-place playoff.

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