The Samsung Lions of the Korea Baseball Group have agreed to a cope with right-hander Taylor Widener, experiences Jeeho Yoo of Yonhap Information (Twitter hyperlink). Righty Albert Suarez is being launched in a corresponding transfer.
Widener has spent the ’23 marketing campaign in South Korea. The previous Diamondback signed an offseason cope with the NC Dinos. He began 11 video games, working to a 4.52 ERA over 61 2/3 frames. Widener had a good 22% strikeout fee in opposition to a barely elevated 8.9% stroll proportion.
Whereas his manufacturing was serviceable, it wasn’t sufficient for the Dinos to commit considered one of their two allotted roster spots to foreign-born pitchers. They launched him final week and signed left-hander Tanner Tully out of the Yankees’ group. In line with Yoo, Widener’s contract might be made official on Friday, as KBO guidelines require a participant to attend per week upon being waived earlier than signing with one other group.
It’s not frequent to see overseas gamers instantly catch on with a special KBO group after being launched. Widener is wholesome, although, so the Lions will swap him in for Suarez. The Venezuelan-born hurler (and older brother of Padres reliever Robert Suarez) lately suffered a calf damage and is anticipated to be out round a month, tweets Dan Kurtz of MyKBO.
Suarez, a 33-year-old righty who pitched within the majors with the Giants from 2016-17, spent a 12 months and a half with the Lions. He had a wonderful 2.49 ERA displaying by means of 173 2/3 innings a season in the past and carried a 3.92 ERA over 19 begins this 12 months. Sadly, the damage minimize that productive run brief.
