The Kia Tigers of the Korean Baseball Organization (KBO) will be replacing their foreign pitcher.
Kia filed for waiver with the KBO on Friday, and the KBO announced Aldred’s waiver.
Aldred has been pitching since June as a “replacement foreign player” for Crowe, who underwent elbow surgery. In nine appearances, he went 3-2 with a 4.53 ERA. After going 1-1 with a 3.60 ERA in four games in June, he struggled in July, going 2-1 with a 5.32 ERA in five games. He took the loss at Doosan on July 30, allowing seven runs in 4 1/3 innings.
The front-running Kia decided to release Aldred and bring in a new foreign pitcher in a last-ditch effort to secure the top spot in the regular season and win the Korean Series.
Kia holds a 5.5-game lead over second-place LG and third-place Samsung. They have struggled in their last five games, going 1-4. The team has struggled in the starting rotation with Lee Yi-ri (surgery) and Yoon Young-cheol (injury) out of the lineup. With two foreign pitchers and a solid starting trio in Yang Hyun-jong, the team will look to finish first in the regular season and win the Korean Series.
Kia’s new foreign pitcher is likely to be Eric Lauer (29). Lauer is a left-handed pitcher with plenty of big league experience, having appeared in 120 games (112 starts) in the major leagues, with a career record of 36-37 with a 4.30 ERA.
He’s also young, born in 1995.
Lauer was drafted by the Toronto Blue Jays in the 17th round of the 2013 draft out of high school, but went on to play at Kent State University. 토토사이트 추천 He was drafted by the San Diego Padres in the first round (25th overall) of the 2016 draft.
He made his big league debut with San Diego in 2018, starting 23 games in his first year, going 6-7 with a 4.34 ERA. In 2019, he made five starts and went 8-10 with a 4.45 ERA in 30 games.
He was acquired by the Milwaukee Brewers in a trade prior to the 2020 season. San Diego sent Lauer, infielder Luis Urias, and a player to be named later to Milwaukee for pitcher Zack Davies and outfielder Trent Grisham.
In 2020, which was a shortened season (60 games) due to COVID-19, he made just four appearances, and in 2021, he appeared in 24 games (20 starts), going 7-5 with a 3.19 ERA. In 2022, he had a career-high season, going 11-7 with a 3.69 ERA in 29 games. Last year, he struggled, going 4-6 with a 6.56 ERA in 10 games.
This year, he hasn’t pitched a single game in the big leagues.
He signed a minor league contract with the Pittsburgh Pirates and went 2-2 with a 5.52 ERA in eight games (six starts) at Triple-A Indianapolis. After opting out in June, he signed a minor league contract with the Houston Astros and went 2-2 with a 5.09 ERA in 11 games (10 starts) at Triple-A Sugar Land.
Lauer uses a four-seam, cutter, and curveball. In 2023, he threw a four-seam (43%), cutter (36%), curve (12%), slider (8%), and changeup (1%). His fastball averaged 93.3 mph (150.2 km/h) in 2022, but dropped to 90.8 mph (146.1 km/h) in 2023.