All 10 professional baseball teams have completed the formation of foreign players in the 2025 season. 

KIA Tigers announced on the 26th, "We have recruited a new foreign hitter who will play an active role in the 2025 season. We signed a contract with Patrick Wisdom for a total of $1 million (about 1.5 billion won), including a down payment of $200,000 (about 300 million won) and an annual salary of $800,000 (about 1.2 billion won)." With KIA's last recruitment of Wisdom, 10 KBO League teams have completed recruiting foreign players for the 2025 season. 메이저사이트

A foreign player is an important variable that determines the direction of a player who will play in fall baseball in the KBO League. For this reason, many teams are focusing their efforts on forming foreign players. Notably, many teams had big names who played in the Major League this winter. Along with Yasiel Puig's return to the Major League, a number of players who are likely to play in the Major League next year have decided to go to Korea, including Wisdom, Yonny Chirinos, Mitch White and Cole Irvin of Doosan. 

Ironically, the team that invested the most in foreign players next season is not the team that recruited these big names, but the KT Wiz that re-signed many players. There is a limit of 1 million dollars for new foreign players. KT has renewed its contracts with William Cuevas (total of 1.5 million dollars) and Mel Rojas Jr. (total of 1.8 million dollars), who have long been active in the team, and spent 4.3 million dollars in total by acquiring Enmanuel de Heysus (total of 1 million dollars) who played for Kiwoom this year. 

The teams that invested the most were the LG Twins and SSG Landers. LG and SSG each spent 4 million dollars. LG re-signed Austin Dean (1.7 million dollars), the winner of the Golden Glove Award, and Elijah Hernandez (1.3 million dollars), the winner of the Golden Glove Award. And they signed new foreign pitcher Chirinos for 1 million dollars. SSG re-signed Guillermo Herredia (1.8 million dollars) and Drew Anderson (1.2 million dollars) and brought in White for 1 million dollars. 

The NC Dinos followed with 3.8 million dollars. The NC Dinos renewed their contracts with Matt Davidson, the home run king, for a total of 3.2 million dollars (about 4.7 billion won) per year. The team also hired new foreign pitchers Logan Allen (1 million dollars) and Riley Thompson (900,000 dollars) to spend a total of 3.8 million dollars as of the 2025 season. This is the largest amount of money at 5.1 million dollars when Davidson renews his contract. Kia has renewed its contract with James Nail, which ranks first in ERA this year, for 1.8 million dollars and has Adam Woller (1 million dollars) and Wizdom (1 million dollars).

Lotte Giants also invested 3.7 million U.S. dollars, the same amount. The Giants renewed their contracts with Barnes (total of 1.5 million dollars) who showed good performance over the past three years, and Victor Reyes (total of 1.25 million dollars), who set the record for most hits in a single season in the KBO League, and new foreign pitcher Tucker Davidson (total of 950,000 dollars). The Samsung Lions also re-signed with Denny Reyes (total of 1.2 million dollars) and Lewin Diaz (800,000 dollars) and re-signed with Ariel Furado (total of 1 million dollars) who played for Kiwoom. 

The Doosan Bears, Hanwha Eagles, and Kiwoom Heroes failed to surpass 3 million dollars. After replacing all the foreign players, Doosan's plan was slightly disrupted when Thomas Hatch, a foreign pitcher who was originally supposed to sign, failed to pass the medical test, broke the contract and signed Jack Rogue for a total of 800,000 dollars. Cole Irvin and Jake Cave filled the upper limit of 1 million dollars for new foreign players and spent 2.8 million dollars. Hanwha re-signed Ryan Weiss ($950,000) and signed Cody Ponce ($1 million) and Esteban Floral ($850,000), the same as Doosan's, to record 2.8 million dollars. 

Kiwoom only spent 2.4 million U.S. dollars, the smallest amount. It sent both Furado and Hayesus to other teams and brought back Yasiel Puig (1 million dollars). The rest of the foreign players have completed the process by recruiting Ruben Cardinez (600,000 dollars) who played for Samsung this year and signing new foreign pitcher Kenny Rosenberg (800,000 dollars). The gap is 1.9 million dollars, which is the largest amount spent by KT in the 2025 season.