Fall baseball decision… LG is Hernandez and KT is released Lohas
The power reinforcement through the trade is now over. All that remains is a foreign player. Of course there is a deadline. Foreign players can only be replaced by August 15 to play in the postseason. That’s why the teams’ movements for autumn baseball have been busy.
LG (LG) Twins, who are competing first with Hanwha Eagles, released Elizer Hernandez (30), who played impressive in the postseason last year, and recruited a new foreign pitcher Ander Hurst (26) on the 3rd. Since August last year, Hernandez, who has been in LG, re -signed with an impressive pitch in autumn baseball, but was less than expected with 14 games in 14 games and 4.23 ERA. In the last pitching (Daegu Samsung War) on the 2nd, he struggled with six innings and two hits (one home run) and two strikeouts.
LG’s newly recruited Tolhurst has no big league experience, but he has played in 92 games in the minor league four seasons, scoring 15 wins and 10 losses. This year, he had a 4-5 loss and an average ERA of 4.65 in Triple A 18 games. July was quite good with four games in four games, 2 wins and 2 losses and an average ERA of 1.37 (26 hits, 17 hits and four runs). LG introduced Tolhurst as “a right -handed pitcher with a variety of pitches and a right -handed pitcher with a variety of pitches.” However, it should be watched in the future that you have never thrown more than 60 innings this year.
Katie (KT), who is fighting for the fifth round, broke up with a foreign batter Melohas Jr., 35. In 2017, Lohas, who wore Katie uniforms, won four hits in 2020 and received the best player award (MVP). After returning to Katie last year after the Japanese League (2021-2023), he still showed his appearance. However, this year, he left Katie with a batting average of 0.239 and 14 homers and 43 RBIs.
Lohas is a left -hander Andrew Stevenson (31). Stevenson debuted in the 2017 Major League (MLB) and scored 0.243, 8 home runs and 50 RBIs. The minor league records are 770 games, batting 0.289, 58 home runs 328 RBIs. Unlike Lohas, he is a medium and long -range batter. Katie sent out William Kuevas, who had been with him for seven years, and recruited Patrick Murphy.
Lotte Giants, who are aiming for the third place or more, are worried about foreign pitcher Tucker Davidson. Davidson showed a pretty good helmet until May (12 games, 6 wins, 1 loss, 2.45 ERA), but in June -July, he sluggish 3 wins and 4 losses and an average ERA of 5.66 (47 innings). Another problem is that the bullpen’s burden is high due to the low average pitch innings. Home matches (10 games 3 wins and 3 losses average ERA 5.03) are also not good. Lotte is looking for alternative players with the replacement in mind, but the US starter market is also having difficulty choosing.
By Kim Yang -hee, reporter whizzer4@hani.co.kr
