Will I end up like Park Hyo-joon... 'Pilot Game OPS 1.205 Bombing' Bae Ji-hwan, "Excluding the Opening Roaster" MLB.com
Will I end up like Park Hyo-joon... 'Pilot Game OPS 1.205 Bombing' Bae Ji-hwan, "Excluding the Opening Roaster" MLB.com
Blog Article
Could he follow in the footsteps of Park Hyo-joon (29) last year? Watchers say that Bae Ji-hwan (26) of the Pittsburgh Pirates, who has displayed his presence by swinging hard at exhibition games, will not make the opening roster.
The Major League's official website, MLB.com , predicted Pittsburgh's 26-man opening roster on the 12th (Korea Standard Time).
No name could be found on the list. MLB.com predicted that Brian Reynolds, O'Neill Cruz and Tommy Pham will form Pittsburgh's main outfield lineup. It was expected that Adam Frazier, Jared Triolo, and Zach Swinsky will be on the bench list that Bae should delve into.
Bae Ji-hwan, who moved to the U.S. in 2018 and started his minor league career, made his Major League debut in 2022 and showed his potential with a batting average of 0.333 (11 hits in 33 at-bats) and six RBIs and three steals in 10 games with an OPS of 0.829. He played his first full-time season in 2023 and recorded a batting average of 0.231 (77 hits in 334) with two homers, 32 RBIs and 24 steals with an OPS of 0.607. He had a hiatus of nearly a month due to an ankle injury in the middle of the season, and his pace fell somewhat, but he showed off his fast feet by tying for 16th in the National League (NL) stolen base category.
In the third year of the big league, Bae showed a disappointing performance last year. He had a batting average of 0.189 (14 hits in 74 at-bats), six RBIs, and six steals in 29 games, showing sluggish performance with an OPS of 0.463. Having suffered from frequent injuries, Bae had a hard time because he had a batting average of 0.341 in 66 games with seven homers, 41 RBIs, and 14 steals with an OPS of 0.937, which was consolation.
Bae Ji-hwan, who is aiming for his fourth MLB season, has adapted to his new batting form and is flying with a batting average of 0.455 (10 hits in 22 at-bats) and one homer, three RBIs and two steals in 10 exhibition games with an OPS of 1.205.
Despite his outstanding performance, Bae's position is still unstable. Bae, who had a multi-hit performance against the Boston Red Sox (3 hits in 3 at-bats, one home run, one RBI and two runs scored) on the 5th and the Philadelphia Phillies (2 hits in 2 at-bats) on the 8th, was out of the game against the Atlanta Braves on the 9th. The Detroit Tigers (no hit in 3 at-bats) on the 10th and the Baltimore Orioles (no hit in 2 at-bats) on the 11th played as substitutes and had no hit in 2 consecutive games.
Bae started as the first batter and center fielder for the first time in a long time at the game against the New York Yankees on Wednesday, and made two hits (two doubles) in four at-bats, an RBI and two runs. Despite his stellar performance, MLB.com gave a cold prediction that there would be no place for Bae on the 26-man roster of Pittsburgh.
It's as if she was watching Park Hyo-joon last year. Park, who signed a minor league contract with the Oakland Athletics ahead of the 2024 season, played in 23 exhibition games, displaying a batting average of 0.477 (21 hits from 44 times at bat), one homer, nine RBIs, two steals, and an OPS of 1.137. However, she failed to make it to the opening roster due to the club's direction in which she needed to give more chances to promising players. Since then, Park has remained in the minor league all year round, but has become unbeatable since the end of the season.
Unlike Park Hyo-joon who joined the Oakland Athletics through a minor contract, Bae is a promising player that the Pittsburgh Pirates have been striving to foster for years. As Bae is relatively young, he cannot be considered to be in exactly the same position 스포츠토토. However, it remains to be seen when Bae will have another chance to enter the big league if he misses this opportunity to enter the U.S. in the eighth year of his participation in the U.S. It remains to be seen whether Bae's stellar performance in exhibition games will lead to his entry into the opening roster.