“Wow, 159km bang” Jang Hyun-seok, “LAD starter top prospect,” has a narrow rookie league

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Korean baseball’s promising players, who chose the U.S. stage rather than the Korean league after graduating from high school, left a strong impression. To Jang Hyun-suk (20), the rookie league stage is too narrow. The pitcher with the terms and conditions made people look forward to a bright future by throwing fast balls up to 160 kilometers per hour on unfamiliar U.S. soil.

Jang Hyun-seok, a member of the Los Angeles Dodgers rookie team, pitched in the top of the second inning when his team was 0-6 behind the San Diego Padres rookie team in the rookie level Arizona Complex League game on the 23rd (Korea time) and pitched two strikeouts and no runs in one inning.

Jang Hyun-seok, who grounded out Spence Coffman to shortstop, struck out the opposing Korean player Choi Byung-yong and struck out Edison Coffac with a swing and miss.

Jang Hyun-seok, who played 13 innings in eight games (five starts), has a 1-1 record and 8.31 ERA this season. There are enough significant figures considering that it is a league with undone gemstones, although nothing special seems so far.

Jang Hyun-seok, who pitched two innings each in the first two games and pitched five strikeouts without losing a point, has since lost four consecutive games, soaring ERA. 메이저사이트

However, Jang Hyun-suk, who allowed only one walk and six strikeouts during three innings on Saturday, garnered two strikeouts through perfect pitching. He struck out a whopping 25 times during 13 innings in eight games. The number shows how powerful the combination of overwhelming ball power and high-quality breaking balls is. The number of strikeouts per nine innings amounts to 17.3.

Bruce Kuntz of Dodgers Digest, who deals with Dodgers news, released a video of Jang Hyun-seok’s pitching on his X (former Twitter), saying, “Jang Hyun-seok, the Dodgers’ top starting prospect, sprayed a 99 mph (159.3 km) ball in the Arizona Complex League.”

Just by the expressions “top prospect” and “99 miles,” one can predict how much the Dodgers have high expectations. Since it is a strikeout machine that sprays 99 miles, expectations are high that it will be able to handle the situation in the big leagues if it is refined well.

Jang Hyun-seok is a player whose mouth has been watering for a long time by the Los Angeles Dodgers. He has raised his stock price with fastballs since he was a freshman at Masan Yongma High School, and by his junior year of high school, he was praised for making good use of four-seam fastballs with speeds of up to 157 kilometers per hour, large curves and changeups with drops in the early 130 kilometers per hour, and sliders and sweepers in the early 140 kilometers. He proved himself to be an “elementary and high school player” with three wins and no losses in nine games that year with an ERA of 0.93.

Jang was on a plane to the U.S., although he seemed highly likely to be picked as the first overall pick in the 2024 KBO Rookie Draft. Los Angeles Dodgers’ Pacific Scout Director John Dibble, who has been watching him steadily since he was in middle school, must have played a big role. Even though he used up all the international draft expenses that could be used as a promising player, he turned over another promising player to another team to make a place for Jang, and Jang eventually joined hands with the Dodgers.

After the contract, MLBCOM, the official website of MLB, also praised Jang Hyun-seok for being ranked 17th in the Dodgers team as a promising player and having the potential to play as a third starter in the big league. On the 20-80 scale, one of the prospects’ evaluation measures, Jang Hyun-seok’s fastballs, curves, and sliders were all rated at the Major League All-Star level of 60, and his overall potential was set at 45 points, slightly lower than the average, putting changeups and control at the league average of 50.

By throwing 99 miles of fastball on the day, however, he proved his potential to surpass expectations. There is no need to rush. If the Dodgers shows progress by slowly proving that it has full potential, it will likely be called to the big leagues soon with rapid promotion.

Meanwhile, Choi Byung-yong (22), who had a showdown on the day, started as the third batter and shortstop, and recorded one hit, one strikeout, and one run from three times at bat. After graduating from Shinil High School, Choi entered the New Mexico Military Academy, and was nominated by San Diego in the order of 611 times at 20 rounds last year.

After playing in only seven games last year, he has a batting average of 0.255 with three home runs, 13 RBIs with 20 points, an on-base percentage of 0.398, a slugging percentage of 0.412, and an on-base percentage of 0.810.