LOS ANGELE**S –** The Los Angeles Dodgers have agreed to terms with utility player Hyeseong Kim on a three-year contract for $12.5 million with a two-year club option for 2028 and 2029. The Dodgers designated catcher Diego Cartaya to make room on the 40-man roster.

Kim, 25, joins the Dodgers after spending the last eight seasons in the Korean Baseball League. He finished the 2024 season with the Kiwoom Heroes, batting .326 with 11 homers, 30 stolen bases and 75 RBI in 127 games. He spent six seasons with Kiwoom, batting .309 with 32 homers, 280 stolen bases and 339 RBI. He was the KBO stolen base leader in 2021, swiping 46 bases in 50 chances and has notched 211 stolen bases since 2018, which is the most in the KBO during that six-year span. The sure-handed Kim won three straight KBO Fielding Awards from 2021-23 while playing four different positions for Kiwoom.

The Goyang, Gyeonggi, South Korea native started his professional career with Nexen in the KBO, playing 152 games in two seasons and recording five homers and 47 RBI with the Heroes.

He was part of the 2022 Asian Games, winning the Gold Medal for South Korea, slashing .292/.500/.370.