Minor League contract with MLB Texas is imminent… It seems like there will be infinite competition at the demonstration
It is reported that left-handed pitcher Yang Hyeon-jong, 33, has agreed to a minor league contract with the Texas Rangers in the MLB.
MLB Traderumers.com (MLBTR), which communicates the status of player transfers and contracts, quoted various media on the 13th (Korean time) and reported that Texas and Hyunjong Yang are ahead of the announcement of the minor league contract.
Dallas Morning News reporter Evan Grant predicts that the Texas club will announce a contract with Hyunjong Yang, who has shown interest for a long time, as soon as possible.
Fort Worth Star Telegram reporter Jeff Wilson agreed to a minor league contract, including conditions for Yang Hyun-jong to participate in the Texas Spring Camp as an invited player. I introduced it in a relatively specific way.
Yang Hyeon-jong, who debuted as a pro in 2007 and left the KIA Tigers, a Korean professional baseball player who played an active part for 14 years until last year, took the chance to achieve his dream for the last time in his life.
After the 2014 season, Texas has been building antennas after first paying attention to Yang Hyeon-jong, who was aiming to advance to the major leagues through a posting system (closed competitive bidding).
At the time, when it was revealed that Yang Hyun-jong was expected to receive only $1.5 million from the major league club, KIA said that he could not send an ace at a bargain price, leaving him with the team.
After the end of last season, when Yang Hyeon-jong obtained his second free agent (FA) qualification, he promoted to advance to the major leagues, and when he faced difficulties in negotiations, he struck Bae-jin after losing his minor league contract.
Ahead of the start of the spring camp, Texas, desperate for pitching reinforcement, reached out to Yang Hyun-jong.
MLBTR introduced that Yang Hyun-jong was a steady cheol-wan, who threw more than 1,200 innings for eight years from 2013 to 2019 and left an average ERA of 3.35.
He also emphasized that the durability was verified by starting more than 29 times a year for the past 7 years, and in particular, Yang Hyun-jong threw 172⅓ innings, although he did not perform well last year.
In the aftermath of the novel coronavirus infection (Corona 19), the major leagues played an ultra-mini shortened season of 60 games per team in 2020.
So, no pitcher has thrown more than 85 innings.
On the contrary, Yang Hyun-jong, who recorded more than that double pitching innings, could theoretically become one of the best pitchers in his fingers, who can pitch more than 180 innings by starting 33-34 times as a starting pitcher this season, MLBTR said.
Only three starting pitchers for Texas were decided: Kyle Gibson, Mike Poltinevic and Gohei Arihara.
Dallas Morning News predicted that if Yang Hyun-jong signed a minor league contract with Texas, he would compete with Jordan Lyles, Korean Dane Dunning, and Kyle Cody at the spring camp.
Texas is preparing for this season with a different mound management, such as a six starting system or a ‘1+1’ strategy that puts two pitchers one after another on a specific day, rather than fixing the starting pitcher to 5, so Yang Hyun-jong is preparing for the possibility in the demonstration game If you are recognized, your chances of becoming a big leaguer also increase.
Texas’ pitcher and catcher spring camp training begins on the 18th at Surprise Stadium in Arizona, USA.
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