'Kershaw until the 5th episode → Betting ball from the 6th episode' How do you set the timing of the 800,000 dollar foreigners' whims and replacement
'Kershaw until the 5th episode → Betting ball from the 6th episode' How do you set the timing of the 800,000 dollar foreigners' whims and replacement
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He throws very well until the fifth inning. He shakes fast from the sixth inning. He is not even a fourth or fifth starter, but a foreign pitcher. It is regrettable to change the pitcher after five innings, and nervous to drag him on. How should we set the timing to replace the pitcher.
This is the story of Jack Rogue, a foreign pitcher of the Doosan Bears. Rogue becomes a completely different pitcher if he throws more than 75 pitches. Looking at his performance so far, he cannot trust and leave the pitcher until the sixth inning. If a foreign pitcher throws only five innings, it will be a huge loss.
Rogue is cold-heartedly refusing to pay the price. Doosan signed a contract with Rogue for a total of 800,000 U.S. dollars. Rogue pitched in five games and played 28 ⅔ innings in the 2025 season. He only had one quality start. He won one game and lost three games with an ERA of 4.71. He ranks 25th among 29 pitchers whose earned run average (ERA) met the stipulated innings. Choi Seung-yong and Choi Won-joon, the third to fourth starters in his team, have a lower ERA than Rogue.
However, if you take a closer look at Rogue's record, it will be more troublesome. Rogue's earned run score of 60 percent was concentrated after the sixth inning. Rogue allowed only six points in five games before the fifth inning. If Rogue throws only five pitches in each game and is replaced, his ERA drops to 2.16.
Logs show that the number of marginal pitches is about 80. Logue has a batting average of 0.195 in the 75th pitch. The batting average in the 76 to 90th pitches has soared to 0.350. If the ball goes over 91, the batting average is a whopping 0.571. He also showed weak performance with a batting average of 0.448 and an on-base hit of 0.484 to hitters who face off for the third time in a game.
The match against KIA in Jamsil on the 20th was a game in which Doosan's bench's concerns about Rogue were clearly revealed.
Rogue pitched 86 pitches through the fifth inning, giving up just two hits and no runs. However, he started pitching in the sixth inning. Choi Ji-gang, a must-winner who started in the sixth inning, took the mound in the seventh inning as well. Doosan was leading 2-0, but suffered a upset when the link between starter and closing pitcher Kim Taek-yeon was broken.
Of course, a team that can manage a must-win group of five or six members is not a big problem. If you just change it in the fifth inning, that's all.
Doosan has no room in its bullpen. Hong Geon-hee, a must-winner, felt pain in his elbow right before the opening. Left-hander Lee Byung-hun has been recovering his ball power a little slow after suffering from severe pain in the early days of the season. Choi Ji-gang, Lee Young-ha, and Kim Taek-yeon are the clear winning cards. Therefore, if the starting pitcher goes down before the sixth inning, there will be a lot of pressure. If there is a game in which Choi Ji-gang or Lee Young-ha has to take charge of multi-inning, the operation becomes more twisted.
Players who used to be bullpen pitchers often lose strength in mid-to-late seasons when they come to the KBO League to start first or second. Rogue is not such a case. He pitched in 124 games as a starting pitcher in the Minor League 먹튀검증. However, there is a possibility that his past physical strength has not been restored as he played in 13 games as a starter and 12 games as a relief pitcher last year. Attention is focusing on whether Doosan will find a solution and how long it can wait.