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(Seoul = Yonhap News) Reporter Jang Hyun-gu = American professional baseball (MLB) Toronto Blue Jays ace, Ryu Hyun-jin, 34, ranked at the top in MLB.com’s opening game starter evaluation.
MLB.com posted the ranking of the starting pitchers by team for the opening game of the regular league in 2021, starting on April 2 (Korean time), on the website on the 28th.
Ryu Hyun-jin, who started the first regular league game against the New York Yankees at 2:05 am on April 2 at the New York Yankee Stadium, took 6th place among the 30 starting pitchers.
MLB.com said that Ryu Hyun-jin was ranked in the top 3 for the second year in a row in the Cy Young’s poll to determine the league’s best pitcher.
He added that if Ryu Hyun-jin threw 182⅔ innings at the Los Angeles Dodgers in 2019, if he gives Toronto this year’s pitching innings, the Toronto club will feel thrilled.
Ryu Hyun-jin scored 88 points in the 2019 National League Cy Youngs poll, which he played for the Dodgers, and took second place alone after Jacob Digrom (New York Mets).
In 2020, the first year of his move to Toronto, he ranked third after Shane Bieber (Cleveland Indians) and Maeda Genta (Minnesota Twins) with 51 points.
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The Yankees ace Gerrit Cole, who clashed with Ryu Hyun-jin, was in third place.
MLB.com said Cole is the first full season for the Yankees, and the Yankees predicted that they would need an overwhelming pitching and endurance beyond what Cole had previously shown.
Unlike last year, when only 60 games per team were played in the aftermath of the novel coronavirus infection (Corona 19), this year’s 30 major league teams returned to 162 games per team after two years.
The ace must be thrown more than any other pitcher in the team as an’inning eater’, and the starting rotation must be kept consistently.
That expectation is contained in the rankings of Ryu Hyun-jin and Cole.
Beaver, who boasted his climax last year, ranked first in the overall, followed by strong Cy Young candidate DiGrom of the National League.
Darvish, who moved to San Diego Padres, ranked fourth, and Clayton Kershaw (Dodgers) ranked fifth.
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2021/03/28 12:41 sent