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| Texas Rangers Hyunjong Yang. (Video Interview Capture) © News 1 |
Yang Hyeon-jong (33, Texas), who is challenging the major league stage, was introduced in the Texas Rangers’ media guide. ‘Media Guide’ is a brochure provided by major league clubs to the media ahead of each season. It contains all the information of the team, such as player introduction and stadium information.
In the media guide distributed online on the 27th (Korean time), there was the name of Hyunjong Yang.
Texas introduced that Yang Hyeon-jong led the KIA Tigers to the championship by winning the 2017 regular season and the Korean Series Best Player (MVP). In 2015 and 2019, it was ranked first in the KBO League’s average ERA, and in 2014 and 2019, it was dealt with in detail that it was awarded the’Choi Dong-won Award’, which corresponds to Korea’s’Sai Young’.
In addition, he reported that he started in 30 games on average during 7 seasons from 2014 to last year, digesting 184⅓ innings, recording 14 wins and 156 strikeouts.
The history of the national representative was also written in detail. He introduced that he participated in the 2010 Asian Games in Guangzhou, the 2014 Asian Games in Incheon, the 2018 Asian Games in Palembang, the 2017 World Baseball Classic (WBC), and the 2019 WBSC Premier 12.
The media guide predicted that Yang Hyeon-jong could become the fourth Korean-born major leaguer in the history of the Texas club after Park Chan-ho (2002-2005), Choo Shin-soo (2014-2020), and Rob Lepsnyder (2020).
Lepsnyder is an outfielder born in Seoul and adopted into an American family. Kim Jong-tae, the Korean name, played 15 games in Texas last year, hitting 0.200.
Meanwhile, Yang Hyeon-jong, who signed a split contract with Texas, gets a maximum annual salary of $1.85 million when he enters the major leagues.
After joining the Texas Spring Camp the day before (26th), Yang Hyun-jong digested his first bullpen pitching and began to quench toward entering the big league.