SSG, KIA, and Hanwha "Short-term Foreigners"... 45 days without Bands, only Lotte is sad. "I didn't know it would take this long."

SSG, KIA, and Hanwha "Short-term Foreigners"... 45 days without Bands, only Lotte is sad. "I didn't know it would take this long."

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"I didn't know it would take this long."

Foreign pitchers account for an absolute portion of the KBO league. It is hard to find a team every year that can completely replace foreign pitchers' injuries.

The same applies to the departure of Charlie Barnes (28) of the Lotte Giants, who is entering his third year this year. Barnes felt pain in his thigh during the first half of the second inning against the Samsung Lions on May 26, and voluntarily left the mound. The result of the diagnosis was fine damage to the internal muscles. The first diagnosis was made within two to three weeks, but the timeline has been extended. More than a month later, Barnes has yet to return to the first team. He is expected to play in the first series of the second half of the season.
"It won't be a big issue, but I think it will be a bit burdensome to play in the first game of the second half," Lotte manager Kim Tae-hyung said on the schedule when he met at Jamsil Baseball Stadium in Seoul on Tuesday. "I'm thinking of playing in the second or third game."

As Kim said, if Barnes takes the mound on Wednesday (the second game of three consecutive Incheon SSG Landers), it will be his first pitch in about 45 days. The period is a little over six weeks. In other words, if he had known this, he could have used a foreign pitcher as a substitute.

Short-term substitute foreign players were introduced for the first time this year. According to the KBO League rules, each club is allowed to list a foreign player on the rehabilitation list when he or she is diagnosed with injury and cannot play for more than six weeks, and sign and register a substitute before returning to the team.

I wondered how interested the players in overseas leagues would be in "part-time jobs bound for Korea," but the results are significant. Kisho Shirakawa, recruited by SSG using the No. 1 substitute card, concluded his contract with two wins and two losses and an earned run average of 5.09 in five games. He was sluggish in just one game with seven runs, while complying with an earned run average of 2.49 in the remaining four games. He was so good that he had to weigh in with Roenis Elias, who will return to the team. Doosan, which injured Brandon Wardell, has made a big splash that it is agonizing over recruiting him.
KIA is also a success. Cam Aldred, recruited by Kia, had one win and one loss with an ERA of 3.60 in four games. He only lost six points in the first game, but posted two earned runs in 17 innings (1.06 ERA) in the next three games, which is close to perfection. Hanwha's Ryan Weiss also had quality starts (more than six innings as a starter and three earned runs or less), and has a win and ERA of 2.25 in both games. All three of them are "successful" to anyone's eyes. 메이저놀이터

Lotte has no choice but to reflect on its disappointment. It would have been nice if the starting lineup had been solid during the absence of Barnes, but since May 27, the starting lineup has averaged 5.83, ranking eighth. Aaron Wilkerson emerged as the league's leading ace in June, and young gun players such as Kim Jin-wook and Lee Min-seok showed better performance than expected. Still, there was still a lot of vacancy in the starting lineup. If you are lucky in the midst of misfortune, the result itself is not bad. Lotte ranked first in monthly win rate with 14 wins, one draw and nine losses in June. This is because the lineup, led by Yoon Dong-hee, Hwang Sung-bin, Na Seung-yeop and Ko Seung-min, went smoothly.

Lotte feels sorry that it did not use a foreign card as a substitute for the short term as the departure period is nearly two months away. If Barnes had been around, it would have been more wins. "We didn't prepare for it," manager Kim Tae-hyung said. "I didn't know it would take this long. The period continued and the schedule (to return to the second half) came out even after two weeks, but it was also difficult to use a substitute for the short term at that point. I should have used it as soon as I left."