Why Kiwoom? Duo with 23 wins → One foreign pitcher...Rosenberg has a heavy shoulder

Why Kiwoom? Duo with 23 wins → One foreign pitcher...Rosenberg has a heavy shoulder

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Two foreign pitchers, who had been giving more than 10 wins side by side, went out, and there was only one new one.메이저놀이터

Kiwoom Heroes is the only team in the KBO this year that has created a foreign player combination with one pitcher and two batters. It is true that there are more concerns than expected.

Last season, Kiwoom was the most powerful foreign pitcher with one-two punch. At first, Ariel Furado displayed stellar performance during 30 games, 190 ⅓ innings, 10-8 with a 3.36 ERA.

He was the most stable starting pitcher not only for Kiwoom but also for the entire KBO. He ranked first in quality starts (more than six innings as a starter and less than three earned runs) with 23 innings alone.

Enmanuel de Heysus was also formidable. He pitched 171 ⅓ innings in 30 games, recording 13 wins and 11 losses with an ERA of 3.68. Notably, he ranked second in both categories with 178 strikeouts and 20 quality starts.
Kiwoom gave up renewing its contract with De Heysus even after the end of last season. He believed that the priority would be to strengthen the lineup, which has been weakened by the successive advancements of Kim Ha-sung, Lee Jung-hoo and Kim Hye-sung to the Major League. He recruited Yasiel Puig and Ruben Cardinez and threw a game-changer to bring in two foreign batters.

Naturally, foreign pitchers became one. He signed a total of 800,000 dollars (annual salary of 700,000 dollars, option 100,000 dollars) with Kenny Rosenberg, who is new to the Korean stage.

Of course, there is a lot on Rosenberg's shoulders. Rosenberg is a player that Kiwoom has watched for a long time. He is confident in his skills to the extent that he has offered to recruit him in the past.

Rosenberg, who was drafted by the Tampa Bay Rays in the eighth round of the 2016 MLB Rookie Draft, played in the minor leagues before making his major league debut with the Los Angeles Angels in 2022. Last year, he recorded 9 wins, 7 losses and an ERA of 4.21 in 115 ⅓ innings in 21 games in Triple-A, and in the Major League, he recorded 1 loss and an ERA of 6.00 in 24 innings in seven games.

His overall minor league performance was 52-38 with a 4.06 ERA in 719 ⅔ innings in 163 games. In the Major League, he recorded 2-3 with a 4.66 ERA in 67 ⅔ innings in seven games.

Although his performance was not impressive, Kiwoom believed that Rosenberg would play well in the KBO. Rosenberg can play fastballs, sliders, curves, changeups and other various breaking balls in the late 140km range. He is a pitcher who cooks batters with his eight-colored Rapper Tory, not the type that is pressed by force.

Kiwoom's coaching staff, who watched Rosenberg pitch during the training camp, are also expressing satisfaction. "He seems to have prepared well. He showed stable control of the ball. There was no ball that far exceeded the strike zone," Kiwoom's pitching coach Lee Seung-ho said.

Catcher Kim Gun-hee, who achieved the battery, also praised Rosenberg's control, saying, "I haven't received a lot of balls yet, but I have good control."