The pitcher who ruled professional baseball last year was Eric Pedi (31, St. Louis Cardinals) who played in NC Dinos. This year, James Nail (31, KIA Tigers) and Kyle Heart (32, NC) played as a double horses. Pedi, nails, and hearts have all been in the best place with overwhelming skills since the first year of the KBO League.
What new face will be the KBO League next season? Two strong candidates appeared. Doosan Bears ‘Call Arvin (30) and SSG Randers’ Michi White 30. Both Irvin and White filled the $ 1 million, which is the upper limit of new foreign players, with a full amount of coverage. There is a glimpse of the two teams.
Call Irvin pitches on Baltimore on August 28 (Korea time). AP = Yonhap News
Doosan, who suffered from the injuries of foreign pitchers this season, invested $ 200,000 for left -handed pitcher Irvin and $ 800,000 in annual salary. Irvin is a veteran with 28 wins and 40 losses and an average ERA of 4.34. In 2021, he played as a full -time starting pitcher at Auckland Athletics. In 2022, he played 181 innings in 30 games, with 9 wins and 13 losses and an average ERA of 3.98.
Irvin also played in the big league this season wearing Baltimore Orioles and Minnesota Twins uniforms. The grades are 6-6 losses and average ERA of 5.11. It has a stable control, with only 2.16 walks per nine innings. An official of Doosan said, “Irvin is a starting pitcher who has started 90 big leagues in the last four years.”
White contracts with SSG to play in Korea. Photo SSG Randers
White brought by SSG is a Korean player who is Korean. It was already famous for Korean fans for his appearance that resembles Park Chan -ho. His aunt is the head of the anchor shareholder (Korean name Jang Hyun -joo) who runs ‘Nightline’ in ABC. In October, SSG succeeded in recruiting with a strong affection offensive when White was released as a free agent (FA). An SSG official said, “I didn’t have much time because he was offered by another MLB club. Fortunately, I chose to go to Korea with the will to throw it in my mother’s country.”
White scored 4 wins and 12 losses and 5.25 ERAs in 71 MLB games, including the Los Angeles Dodgers, Toronto Blue Jays, San Francisco Giants, and Milwaukee Brewers. SSG was confident that “White is optimized for the automatic pitching judgment system (ABS) environment.” White threw a fastball with a maximum speed of 156 km / h and an average speed of 152 km per hour.