"What kind of rice cake is this?" Kiwoom gave up foreigners' one-two punch, Samsung-KT's windfall...It's been boomerang since the opening game
"What kind of rice cake is this?" Kiwoom gave up foreigners' one-two punch, Samsung-KT's windfall...It's been boomerang since the opening game
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Ariel Furado (29, Samsung Lions) and Enmanuel de Heysus (29, KT Wiz), who played as foreigners' one-two punch in the Kiwoom Heroes last year, pitched well from the opening game. Kenny Rosenberg (27), who gave up the two proven pitchers and newly recruited by Kiwoom, prepared for a harsh initiation ceremony.토토사이트
Furado and Heyesus were among the surprise offerings that appeared in the foreign player market of the KBO League after the end of last year's season. Both pitchers made sufficient re-signing performances, but Kiwoom made an unconventional decision to give young pitchers a chance and change direction to two foreign batters to strengthen its weakened offense.
Still, I thought one of them would stay. We needed proven first starter, but Kiwoom somehow failed to catch both. Both pitchers were excluded from the list of players withheld, allowing them to sign contracts with other teams in the KBO League. The rest of the teams contacted the two players, asking, "What kind of rice cake is this?" Multiple teams competed for recruitment.
KT caught Heysus first, and Samsung became the winner of the recruitment match. Since neither contract was renewed, they signed a contract for $1 million under the upper limit of new foreign players in the KBO. Samsung and KT, who caught proven foreign pitchers, were evaluated as winners in the offseason, and the two pitchers pitched well with quality starts side by side from the opening game on the 22nd.
Furado won the match against his close friend in Daegu. He blocked Kiwoom's batters by allowing eight hits (one homer), one strikeout and five runs in six innings, and led the team to a 13-5 complete victory. Early in the game, he was shaken by pitches slightly out of the zone, but he scored zero from the third inning to pass the fourth inning in an instant with 46 balls. His fastball speed is 146 kilometers per hour on average, but he displayed stability through his borderline ball control by utilizing various pitching types including two-seam, cutter, change-up, slider and curve.
Left-hander Heyesus also made impressive pitching. He displayed good pitching by allowing two hits, two walks and seven strikeouts and one run during six innings against the Hanwha Eagles in Suwon. His team lost three to four to lose the game as the starting pitcher, but his pitching was full of energy. He continued to throw powerful fastballs with speeds of up to 154 kilometers per hour and an average of 150 kilometers per hour in the strike zone, overwhelming Hanwha's batters with power. He even threw sliders at tricky de-ception where left-handed batters hide as much as possible behind his back.
While Furado and Heysus successfully hit the first button in their new team, left-hander Rosenberg, who Kiwoom recruited, had a tough reporting ceremony. At the match against Samsung in Daegu, Ryu had to leave the mound early in three innings with eight hits (one homer) and three walks, four strikeouts and eight runs. Although he did not receive assistance from outfield defense in some cases, Rosenberg's pitching itself was not good. Ryu's fastball speed was not fast at 144 kilometers per hour on average, but his ball control did not work well. He allowed two straight walks and wild pitches.
Of course, a single game cannot evaluate everything. Last year, Heyesus also lost the game against Changwon NC Dinosaurs on March 26, his first game of the season, by allowing six hits (one homer) and three walks, two strikeouts and five runs (four earned runs) in three ⅓ innings. However, he spent a successful season adapting to the league by starting quality in three consecutive games from his next game.
Kiwoom failed to attack even after meeting from the opening game and was hit by a boomerang, but two foreign hitters were effective. Yasiel Puig swung the bat with two hits, two RBIs and one walk in three at-bats, including a home run, and Ruben Cadines with three hits and one RBI in four at-bats. We don't know about the match between the first and second starters, but on the day when the third and fifth starters come out, we confirmed the possibility that we can play enough with a batting match.