They have already lost 1 million dollars, but the reality is that it is not easy to knock out another 900,000-dollar foreign player.
Hanwha Eagles’ foreign players’ uniforms this season are not supported. Birch Smith, who had already been ambitiously recruited as a first-choice starter, went home. He invested a huge sum of $ 1 million (approximately 1.33 billion won), but he threw a total of 60 pitches in one game and was released. He complained of shoulder pain, but the examination results said it was not that severe, so Hanwha must have been mad and jumping.
This is not the end of the nightmare. Foreign hitter Brian O’Grady also went down to the second team. O’Grady, who was highly anticipated as a power-hungry hitter recommended by Ha-seong Kim, who ate rice in one pot with the San Diego Padres. However, the reality was ‘Three Jin King’. 8 hits in 63 at bats in 17 games. There were no home runs. He had a batting average of 1.2 and 7 with a whopping 31 strikeouts. Looking at his game, it seemed difficult to even hit the ball with the bat. It’s hard to understand how a player like this played in the big leagues in the US and played in Japanese professional baseball.
It would be Hanwha’s heart to want to drop O’Grady after Smith and bring in a new player. It’s still early in the season. This is not the time to give up. If the lineup of foreign players is well equipped, Hanwha is also showing game contents that can compete in a mid-level fight.
It was said that O’Grady is going to the 2nd team and that he is also going through the process of being replaced. But it’s not easy. No matter how aggressively Hanwha made investments ahead of this season, money does not fall from the sky. Most expensive foreign players enter the KBO league with guaranteed contracts. Smith, who threw 60 balls, would have taken around $800,000 even excluding the $200,000 incentive. The money invested in him has already exceeded 1 billion won. 메이저사이트
Ricardo Sanchez, who was brought in as a substitute, was also paid 400,000 dollars (approximately 530 million won). He has already spent more than 1.5 billion won on a single pitcher.
In this situation, it is difficult in the reality of the KBO club to throw out O’Grady for a ransom of 900,000 dollars (about 1.2 billion won) and bring in another player. O’Grady’s annual salary is $700,000 (approximately 930 million won), excluding $200,000 in incentives. Smith had an excuse of being injured, but O’Grady is not sick either.
Although the pitcher has the resources that can be brought in, recruiting a hitter is more difficult. Because of this, there is a high probability that a poor result will come out even if it is replaced poorly. He may have decided that it would be better to give O’Grady time to adjust to Korean baseball. Of course, it is questionable how diligently he will study Korean baseball in the 2nd team game and even if he shows improvement there, he will be able to work again in the 1st team.