St. Louis Cardinals pitcher Kim Gwang-hyun is leaving for the United States through Incheon International Airport on the 12th. /Photo = News 1
Pitcher Kwang-Hyun Kim (St. Louis Cardinals) preparing for the second season in the US could be the third starter in the team.
The major league official website’MLB.com’ mentioned Kim Gwang-hyun after Jack Pleherty and Adam Wainwright while predicting the rotation of the opening series for the new season in St. Louis on the 26th (Korean time).
MLB.com said, “St. Louis coach Mike Schilt has Kim Kwang-hyun and Miles Mycholas behind Flehity and Wainwright,” and “the 5th starting position is in open competition.”
It is expected that it will compete with Mycholas, but considering that Micholas skipped the whole season due to injury, it is actually after the Pleherty-Wainright One-Two Punch.
Compared to this time of last year, this is a very different status. Kim Gwang-hyun, who left SK Wyverns at the time and joined St.Louis, started the 2020 season as a finishing pitcher even though he made a good fight during the spring camp.
After the opening of the season, Kim Gwang-hyun has raised his position with abilities. As the finishing pitcher at the beginning of the season, he recorded one save, but changed roles due to a line injury in the starting line.
In the end, Kim Gwang-Hyun started as a starter for 7 games in the 2020 season, scoring 3 wins without losing, and soaring with an average ERA of 1.62 for the entire season. Although he only digested 3⅔ innings, he started in the first game of the wild card game against San Diego Padres, and took on the role of starting the postseason.
Kim Gwang-hyun, who returned to Korea after the season, left for the United States again on the 12th after a three-month break. As expected by MLB.com, Kim Gwang-hyun will start the 2021 season with the opening series with Cincinnati Reds in early April.
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