Yoon Myung-june ( Hangul: 윤명준; born June 18, 1989) is a South Korean pitcher for the Doosan Bears of the KBO League. He bats and throws right-handed. Yoon was selected sixth overall by the Doosan Bears in the KBO Draft.

Amateur career

As a sophomore at

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in Yoon was promoted to the team's starting rotation. Yoon hurled one-run baseball over 7.1 innings and fanned 10 batters against reigning national champion Kyungsung University in his first 2009 season game as a starter. However, Yoon was sidelined with injuries for 3 months and finished the season with a 2.36 ERA and 45 strikeouts in 34.1 innings pitched. Yoon broke out in when he racked up 6 wins as a starter and posted a 0.85 ERA in 52.2 innings pitched. He led the national collegiate league in ERA, and was sixth in strikeouts (67) and seventh in wins. During the season, Yoon was selected for the South Korean national collegiate team and participated in the friendly baseball championship against the United States national baseball team and the

2010 World University Baseball Championship The 2010 World University Baseball Championship was an under-23 college baseball competition held at ''Meiji Jingu Stadium'' in Shinjuku, ''Yokohama Stadium'' in Naka-ku, Yokohama, ''Utsumi-Shimaoka Ballpark'' in Fuchū and ''KAIT Stadium'' in At ...

. As a senior in , Yoon had another strong collegiate season, posting a 6-2 record and an ERA of 1.38 and fanning 66 strikeouts. At the President's Flag Championship, Yoon led his team to the championship tossing a

complete game In baseball, a complete game (CG) is the act of a pitcher pitching an entire game without the benefit of a relief pitcher. A pitcher who meets this criterion will be credited with a complete game regardless of the number of innings played—pitche ...

shutout in the final game, and eventually earned the MVP honors. In September 2011, Yoon was called up to the South Korean senior national team for the

2011 Baseball World Cup The 2011 Baseball World Cup (BWC) was the 39th international Men's amateur baseball tournament. The tournament was sanctioned by the International Baseball Federation, which titled it the Amateur World Series from the 1938 tournament through the ...

held in Panama.

Notable international careers

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Yun Myeong-jun
at Doosan Bears Baseball Club {{DEFAULTSORT:Yoon, Myung-june Sportspeople from Gwangju 1989 births Living people South Korean baseball players Doosan Bears players KBO League pitchers Korea University alumni