Will another foreign player from the KBO league be exported to the major leagues? NC Dinos Drew Luchinski (34), who is the highest paid foreign player this year ($2 million, about 2.8 billion won) and 4th year long-lived foreign player, seems to be attracting attention from the major leagues.
The North American sports media 'The Athletic' announced on the 2nd (hereafter Korean time) that they matched the top 50 players who will enter the free agent market this year. The three shortstops Carlos Correa, Trey Turner, and Danceby Swanson took the rankings 1st, 2nd, and 3rd, and Aaron Judge, the clean home run king with 62 home runs, ranked fourth. Senga Kodai, former ace of the SoftBank Hawks of the Japanese professional baseball league, also expressed his intention read more to play in the major leagues and finished 18th.
Among these, familiar names who are active in the KBO league were included. 깐부티비 NC Luchinsky is the main character. Luchinsky finished 33rd in the FA rankings of The Athletic. Although it is lower than Senga, among pitchers, it ranks higher than Corey Kluber (43rd), Jake Odori (44th), Andrew Heaney (47th), and Shintaro Fujinami (50th) among starting pitchers.
Since 2019, Luchinsky has consistently performed at the top of the league in NC. In his career 121 games, he went 53-36, with an ERA of 3.06 (249 ERAs in 732⅔ innings) and 657 strikeouts. In the KBO League, he has grown into a complete pitcher with a variety of pitches and pitch and control. This year too, Luchinsky recorded a record of 10-12, with a 2.97 ERA (193⅔ innings, 64 ERA) and 194 strikeouts and 34 walks. His winning streak didn't follow, but his innings and strikeouts were his highest since his KBO league debut, and his ERA was the first two points.