NPB's 136th win Sugano, SF Recruitment Radar...The possibility of sharing a room with Lee Jung-hoo
NPB's 136th win Sugano, SF Recruitment Radar...The possibility of sharing a room with Lee Jung-hoo
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Can outfielder Lee Jung-hoo (26, San Francisco Giants) and pitcher Tomoyuki Sugano (35, Yomiuri Giants) share the same team.
John Morosi of MLB Network said on his social media (SNS) on the 24th (Korea time) that "San Francisco is one of the clubs that evaluates free agent Sugano." Sugano, who exercised his FA right after the end of this season, is currently seeking to advance to the U.S. Major League Baseball (MLB).
This is not the first time that San Francisco is interested in Sugano. Sugano tried to enter the MLB through a posting system (closed competitive bidding) in 2020, but he was not offered a satisfactory condition to join the team, so he stayed in the Yomiuri Giants. Clubs that showed interest in recruiting Sugano that year include San Francisco, the San Diego Padres, Toronto Blue Jays, New York Mets, Boston Red Sox, and Texas Rangers. Considering that Lee Jung-hoo belongs to San Francisco, attention is focusing on whether players representing Korea-Japan baseball can play in a team.
Sugano is one of the most representative pitchers of the Japanese professional baseball league. His career performance at NPB is 136 wins and 74 losses with a 2.43 ERA, and throws various sliders, forks, two-seam fastballs, cut fastballs, and curves on fastballs with a maximum speed of 150 kilometers or more. He also played for Japan at the 2015 Premier 12 and 2017 안전놀이터 World Baseball Classic. As a pitcher symbolizing the Yomiuri Giants, NPB's most popular baseball team, he boasts high popularity.
Although the injury and sluggishness caused concern last season, he rebounded this season with 15 wins, 3 losses and 1.67 ERA (156 and 2/3 innings). In particular, he ranked second in ERA after Hiroto Takahashi (12-4, 1.38 ERA). In addition, he topped the league in most pitching indicators, including the first place in allowing on-base hits per inning (WHIP, 0.94) and the fifth place in innings, and the first place in strikeout/ball ratio (6.94), emerging as a candidate for MLB teams that need to strengthen their starters.