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Yang Hyeon-jong (33), a left-handed pitcher of the Texas Rangers in the MLB, continued his hopes of advancing to the’Big League’.
Yang Hyun-jong was not included in the list of minor league players announced by the Texas club on the 18th (Korean time). “We have reassigned four pitchers, including Drew Anderson, Jason Barr, Jarel Cotton and Lewis Otis, to Minor League camp,” said John Blake, vice president of public relations for Texas.
Yang Hyeon-jong, who remained at the spring camp, numbered 58 and succeeded in surviving once. Texas started Spring Camp this year with 72 players and sent 10 players to the minor leagues on the 13th. On this day, an additional 4 people were eliminated. However, in order to be included in the MLB opening game entry, there is still a long way to go, because less than half of the current 26 players must be on the list.
Yang Hyun-jong signed a split contract with Texas ahead of this season. If included in the major league roster, you will receive an annual salary of 1.3 million dollars (about 1.45 billion won). He appeared twice in this year’s demonstration game and scored 3 hits (1 home run) and 1 goal in 3 innings.
Major league teams invite a number of minor leaguers in addition to the existing major leaguers at Spring Camp to train together and play demonstration games. The goal is to raise the team’s strength through competition between players, such as giving prospects a big league experience through demonstration games. Each club holds the spring camp and captures the team several times before the opening of the MLB.
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