Choi Jun-seok hit a grand slam on Thursday, it was his first home run in over a month, and thusly had to be honored with his patented bat flip.
Choi Jun-seok is the beautiful bat-flipping big man who will steal your heart
James Dator has been covering a wide range of sports for SB Nation for over a decade, with a special focus on the NFL.
Choi’s bat flip is beautiful because it almost looks like it defies the laws of physics. One second the bat is swinging behind his head, the next it rockets away from his body at an almost impossible angle. That’s just not confidence in your shot, it’s confidence in the flip, too.
He’s right to be confident in his bat-flipping ability, because Choi will literally bat flip whenever the mood strikes him at all. Most players won’t try to flip until they’re absolutely, 100 percent sure they’ve hit a momentous home run. Choi, on the other hand, will flip his bat ... just because.
He’ll flip it on an obvious foul.
He’ll flip it on a fly ball.
Dude will just flip when he feels like it, because he’s awesome. See, the bat flip in Korea doesn’t have the same kind of ire-inducing, pearl-clutching it does stateside. It’s a revered part of the game. An artform that Mina Kimes of ESPN detailed perfectly.
Choi Jun-seok hits dingers. Maybe not as many as he did in 2015 when he put 31 of them out of the park, but he’ll still hit them — and keep bat flipping all the way.
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