SSG Landers Introduces Substitute International Participant Keisho Shirakawa to KBO League

[OSEN=인천, 한용섭 기자] Keisho Shirakawa (23), a overseas participant to interchange skilled baseball SSG Landers, has lastly arrived within the nation.

An SSG workforce official stated on the twenty fifth, “Kisho arrived within the nation this afternoon. “I feel I am going to get to the baseball stadium across the time the sport begins at 5 pm,” he stated.

It’s stated that Keisho, earlier than coming into Korea, took the mound in an unbiased league recreation on the twenty fourth and threw 50 pitches. Though he had a contract with SSG, he performed in a recreation for Tokushima within the Japanese unbiased league.

The SSG official defined, “The KBO has not authorised the contract but, so there isn’t any downside taking part in within the unbiased league. As quickly as Keisho’s work visa is issued, we’ll put together the related paperwork and submit them to the KBO to use for them. participant registration.”

He added, “As a result of I have been pitching repeatedly, I can provide as quickly as my visa comes out.” SSG’s flip might be a short lived alternative on the twenty sixth.

SSG was the primary within the KBO League to make use of the damage alternative overseas participant recruiting system to recruit pitcher Keisho, who was taking part in within the Japanese unbiased league. SSG introduced on the twenty second that it had signed a contract with Keisho for a complete of 1.8 million yen (about 15.68 million received). He’s the primary Japanese participant to play within the KBO league in 13 years since Ken Kadokura (Samsung) in 2011.

The outcomes of a medical examination confirmed that overseas pitcher Elias wanted greater than 6 weeks of therapy as a consequence of a left inside indirect muscle damage, so SSG will introduce a ‘new overseas participant recruitment system’ ranging from the 2024 season to interchange overseas gamers in the event that they left the workforce due to an damage in the course of the season I made a decision to make use of it.

Keisho is from Tokushima Prefecture, Japan, and joined Tokushima Indigo Sox of Japan’s unbiased league in 2020. Tokushima Indigo Sox is an unbiased league workforce based in 2005 and received its league championship final 12 months.

Keisho, who performed because the workforce’s starter and beginning pitcher for 3 years, had 6 video games and 29 innings this season, 4 wins, 1 loss, a 2.17 ERA (third within the league), and 31 strikeouts. (2nd). within the league) on the time of signing. Within the 2023 season, he appeared in 15 video games (55.2 innings) and recorded 4 wins, 3 losses, and a median ERA of three.56.

SSG stated Keisho’s strengths embody robust mechanics and pitching tempo. He throws a fastball as much as 150 km/h, a slider, a curve, and a changeup. He’s stated to have good recreation management capacity based mostly on steady ball management.

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Yongseop Han (orange@osen.co.kr)