It’s hard to say who has had a more disastrous year: Britney Spears, Michael Vick or Lindsay Lohan. But if you wanted to pick a collective group of individuals who spent 2007 mired in mediocrity and were truly forgettable, Korean baseball players would make a good choice. Here are the gory details on how their baseball seasons unfolded.

Jae Seo

Pitcher Jae Seo managed to win four games for the Tampa Bay Devil Rays, but most of his season played out like batting practice for the opposition. At one point, his ERA skyrocketed to 8.13, and in June, he earned a minor league demotion. While at AAA Durham, Seo put up a decent stat line (9-4, 3.69 ERA) and earned International League Pitcher of the week honors on three different occasions, but the D-Rays still chose not to bring him back up to The Show.

Chan Ho Park

Chan Ho Park’s career has been in a steady state of decline, but in 2007, after signing with New York, he reached a new low, spending the entire year in the minors (with the exception of one shaky start for the Mets). On May 5, Park was eventually released from the club’s AAA affiliate in New Orleans after going 4-4 with a 5.57 ERA. Park then signed with the Houston Astros, and was assigned to its AAA affiliate in Round Rock, Texas. However, his struggles continued (2-10, 6.21 ERA), and he was never called up to join the ‘Stros. For now, it looks as if the career of the man who triggered the Korean baseball movement might be close to over.

Byung Hyun Kim

If Hollywood wanted to make a movie out of Byung-Hyun Kim’s 2007 season, the title could be “Travels of a Baseball Nomad.” Consider how his season unfolded: Beginning in the bullpen of the Colorado Rockies, he went to the Florida Marlins on May 13. After appearing in 14 games for the Fish where he pitched reasonably well (mostly as a starter), he was plucked off the waiver wire by the Arizona Diamondbacks to provide an extra arm for the stretch run of the season. Broken off by the club after two disastrous starts, Kim re-joined the Marlins on Aug. 25 as a free agent where he managed to earn his 10th win of the season in a 7-4 triumph over the New York Mets.

Shin Soo Choo

When the Cleveland Indians added veteran outfielder Trot Nixon to its roster in January, Shin-Shoo Choo saw himself pushed out of the club’s 2007 plans, beginning the season at AAA Buffalo. He did earn a call up to replace injured third baseman Andy Marte in late April for a brief six-game stint, collecting five hits and five RBIs in 17 at-bats, but was then immediately shuttled back to Buffalo. Choo finished the season batting .260 with three home runs and 10 RBIs in 59 games. Choo also spent two months on the disabled list with an elbow ligament strain and underwent Tommy John surgery on his left elbow in September.