Lotte's winning pitcher who chose to break up with 'Jesus the Death of Jesus'...What kind of player will Davison be?

Lotte's winning pitcher who chose to break up with 'Jesus the Death of Jesus'...What kind of player will Davison be?

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The Lotte Giants ended their stint with Aaron Wilkerson and hired Tucker Davidson as a new foreign pitcher. What kind of player will Davidson be.

Lotte officially announced on the 13th that it has completed the formation of foreign players in the upcoming 2025 season and signed a total of $950,000 (guaranteed amount of 850,000 and incentives of $100,000) with new foreign pitcher Tucker Davidson.온라인카지노

After the end of this season, Victor Reyes was the first Lotte player to crack down on the team. Reyes' performance this year was seamless. Reyes, who had never played in a full-time season in the U.S., played in 14 games this year and had as many as 202 hits, recording 15 homers, 111 RBIs, 88 runs and a batting average of 0.352 OPS of 0.904.

Reyes promised to be with Lotte in the 2025 season even before the end of the season, and succeeded in renewing his contract for a total of $1.25 million (guaranteed 1 million, incentives $250,000) on the 26th of last month. And that's where Lotte's worries began. Although Barnes has to renew his contract with Charlie Barnes, the left-winger, for a long time, Aaron Wilkerson, the "Sajik Jesus," was ambiguous to sign a contract prematurely.

Wilkerson, who signed a contract with Lotte during the 2023 season, made a tremendous impact with 7 wins, 2 losses and 2.26 ERA in 13 games in his first season since his debut. And he succeeded in renewing his contract and won 32 games this year, not bad with 12 wins, 8 losses and an ERA of 3.84, including one shutout. However, the fact that he is in his mid- to late 30s and that he has many homers and tends to be hit by intensive hits was a factor that made him agonize over Wilkerson.

In response, Lotte counted all the cases in which Barnes would stay or leave. Wilkerson also took the decision considering that a better player than Wilkerson could be on the market. As a result, he signed a contract worth 1.5 million dollars (1.35 million dollars guaranteed and 150,000 dollars incentives) to accompany Barnes in the 2025 season. However, he decided to end his stay with Wilkerson in the process, and hired Tucker Davidson as a new foreign player.

Davison started his professional career in 2016 when he was drafted by the Atlanta Braves as the 559th overall pick in the 19th round of the rookie draft, and took the big league stage for the first time in 2020, when the shortened season was held due to COVID-19. Davison, who lost one game and had a 10.80 ERA in his first season of debut, had a 3.60 ERA in four games the following year and succeeded in getting his hands on the "winning ring" by taking the mound as a starting pitcher in the World Series that year, but his major league career is not very glamorous.

Davidson continued to record 4-10 with a 5.76 ERA for five seasons with the Los Angeles Angels, Kansas City Royals, and Baltimore Orioles starting with Atlanta, but his performance in the minor leagues was different. During seven seasons in the minor leagues, Davidson pitched in 142 games (98 starts), marking 30-44 with a 3.22 ERA, and excelling in 55 games (40 starts) with a 3.78 ERA in Triple-A. He is a typical Quadruple A player.

The U.S. Major League Trade Rumors (MLBTR) paid attention to Davison's move to the KBO League after Lotte's announcement. "Davidson spent most of this year with Triple-A in Baltimore. He started 17 out of 32 games and played 115 ⅔ innings with a 3.89 ERA," Davison said, adding that instead of accepting another minor league contract, Davison will reflect his solid Triple-A record in the KBO League.

Will Davison, who can play 91 miles of four-seam fastballs, sliders, sinks, sweepers, curves, and splitters, work in the KBO league? For now, it is very welcome for Lotte to join the team, which does not have many left-handed pitchers. "He has high pitching RBIs and good deception, and he can throw various pitches including fastballs, sliders, curves, and splitters," Lotte said, expressing high expectations.