#yoshihoo

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"Lee climbs in, Yamamoto lines and throws" LA's YOSHINOBU YAMAMOTO and SF's LEE JUNGHOO. LAD vs. SFG, 12th MAY 2026

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yoshi and hyeseong waving at junghoo across the dugout

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waitttt what thoughts about each other’s (yoshihoo) numbers? spilll

more on yoshihoo (and then i’ll be done, i think) number headcanons:

they’d have the other’s number stitched onto either their glove or their cleats. i’d imagine yoshi would go for the cleats (pitching glove is a little too important and he’s still, well, him) and junghoo would have it stitched onto his OF glove

getting the other’s numbers tattooed. yoshi is the only one i could see actually going for it, somewhere that is usually covered by his uniform (there’s no covering anything in locker room showers, fyi) and junghoo probably is the one nobody expects to get it done, and then he does so anyway. no one finds out until like five years later, or whatever, and yoshinobu is horribly, insanely smug about it for years and years, and he gets kind of lost just tracing the tattoo over and over and over, because he’s as obsessive as he is annoying

that said, junghoo is way more possessive. he loses it a little, to see the #51 on yoshi. even just his cleats, or his glove, or on a necklace. it doesn’t matter. drives him crazy. (yoshinobu knows that and uses it to his advantage)

they are both notoriously private, or at least tight lipped while overseas, so i think that it would be a subtle detail that simply holds a lot of meaning for either of them, and would actually be very much in line with baseball… styling.

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I feel like Jung-hoo would also throw Yoshinobu over his shoulder when he’s extra annoying to shut him up…

my favorite thing to think about is junghoo, who has been media trained since before he was born basically, who’s been on korean talk shows and has weathered whatever they threw at him, who could tell you from, like, the top of his head about every match up between yoshi and him because he’s crazy like that, who’s so patient. who has survived hyeseong. who, really, is so insanely patient and gracious he’d make a grave look a mess. that guy, and yoshinobu is the one thing that pushes alllllll his buttons. and yoshinobu is such a brat, of course he’s loving this. he’s getting exactly what he wants out of this (annoying junghoo, riling him up, getting manhandled for how much trouble he is intentionally being). but junghoo’s patience runs thin, eventually, as it so ever does. what to do about that but throw that annoying little pitcher around. and also get vastly more creative to find a myriad of ways to shut yoshinobu up.

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do you have any yoshihoo thoughts on your mind 🥺?

this message arriving in my inbox while i was literally finishing my korean assignment about yoshi... it was simply meant to be! do not worry, i always have yoshihoo thoughts on my mind. i mean, who doesn't?

the dreadful long-distance relationship. situationship?

especially now, while junghoo is back in korea and yoshinobu is going through his second postseason, there's gotta be a way for them to communicate. i'd like to think that yoshinobu wakes up to polite texts cheering him on every day, before every start, but after he finished his complete game, there gotta be some proper celebration in order. i'd imagine junghoo to be a little reversed during actual phone sex (via call or video) but then thaws somewhat, and with yoshinobu deserving some praise and some sort of... well, recognition for his incredible feat, there is either pictures involved or a very long, congratulatory phone call. hyeseong wants to know absolutely nothing about it, thank you very much, he will never forget the look on yoshinobu's face when he saw those texts as it is.

(tho, my eternal ot3 yoshihooseong lives on. more thoughts to come? who knows!)

just in general i think the conversation via text messages et al goes a little bit quiet considering the time difference and everything, but once the postseason is over and yoshinobu is on the next flight to japan (i already know he will be, lmao, either during christmas and new year's or whenever else works best for him), they could see each other. flights to japan from korea are, like. dirt cheap. junghoo getting to walk around a little freer, less hounded, in fuckass nowhere that is bizen? where no one will recognize him? yes, please. show that boy the countryside, yoshi! i would love to think that he'd take him out fishing at the crack of fucking dawn because yoshinobu loves to go fishing when he's back home and he laughs and laughs when junghoo gets sea legs and all.

oh! also, junghoo's fascination with yoshi's newly dyed hair!! pictures and videos are not enough, he has to see it for himself. has to run his fingers through it and watch yoshinobu lose all of that refined air he usually wears around anyone that is not shohei or another senior.

stealing each other's shirts and jackets and whatever, of course. this is just natural for them. i think they would go shopping together and they would take ages, and they would get subtly matching outfits because they are gross like that, and junghoo has to shove yoshinobu into a changing room to make out with him like they are teenagers and not world class baseball players. why not. they've spent enough time without each other as it is.

first night together is lazily making out with each other and reacquainting themselves with the other's body, and junghoo spreading yoshinobu out and having him shut up for once, mapping every inch of him just to familiarize himself. can you tell that i always like for yoshinobu to let go of the reins and just enjoy himself? he better make that man cry. i think their tempers work soooo well together, and i think they have some weird psychosexual thing about every single time they faced each other on the mound that season and the subsequent result of it (yoshi striking him out vs. junghoo being the only one to get a hit off yoshi during the entire game, etc.)

in my head, they are weird freaks so whenever the giants win or the dodgers win, the respective player gets whatever he wants. the giants win? junghoo gets yoshi exactly how he wants him, where he wants him, and for as long as he wants him. the dodgers win? yoshi's turn (tho, it usually is yoshi's turn, lmao).

on a softer note, i do think junghoo is actually kind of the perfect character to deal with yoshinobu's anxieties, and who can sit with him and listen to him vent, spill his worries, while allowing him the space to come undone and offering to be the one to catch him.

well, anyway. this got kinda long? but yeah. i have sooooo so many thoughts about them. oh, my yoshihoo...

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YOSHIHOOOO!!!!!

Yoshi with his candid, fuckass photos on the spot in-between other pics from the team’s photographers vs Junghoo’s professional profile #aura as the kids say these says ❤️

the thing is, that technically at least one or two are, theoretically, their pinned post; yoshi definitely keeps his world series win pinned, but i’d love to imagine that he’d pin a picture of junghoo after they come out/if they are out, and i’d think that they’ve been with each for years at that point, that it just feels very satisfying to finally get to do it. i’d imagine him to post as rarely as he does these days, but during the off season there’s always one picture or two of junghoo in the photo dump.

vice versa, junghoo’s instagram is very curated because he’s simply grown up in the public eye so he’s a little more conscious of what he posts (funnily enough, his kiwoom era posts aren’t that curated but now that he’s in SF, he’s definitely posting less personal content); i think he’d share yoshinobu anyway, because it’s a huge part of his life and because he can.

yoshi kinda posts junghoo on his account like he shared carlos after a year and then some of having him. season is over and suddenly he begins posting and there’s a picture of junghoo when they saw each other during the giants series or wherever they meet up in the off season and everyone’s kinda like, right. these two are dating. there’s probably a picture of them just being next to each other or whatever that hyeseong has taken at some point, which is also kind of hysterical to me, because if they’d been seeing each other on an off for ages, yoshi would’ve known about hyeseong before he ever came to los angeles (so you know who rallied for him to come to los angeles).

but i’d also like to think that you scroll back on their accounts and see pictures someone else has taken, and only after they’ve come out it makes sense that the other is the one who’s taken it. an easter egg, if you will.

bonus: junghoo being at the WS wearing yoshi’s jersey. a boy can dream, right?

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yoshihoo socmed au (pt. 1) ft. matching instagram profiles

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You were right about Junghoo wanting to pick Yoshi’s brain if they ever met!!

what did i say!!!!! LMAO!!!!! unsurprising as hell, i told you he’d needle hyeseong about yoshinobu. i told youuuuuuu ages ago. he’s not normal about yoshi, and i do not think he’s ever been, actually.