When I think about the Doosan Bears' foreign pitcher farming this season, I naturally get confused. The pitcher who expected to play the role of "Ace" has not won in the last seven games.

Doosan had an important game on Sunday. It had an 8-4 victory over the SSG Landers at its home stadium. The only regret was that starting pitcher Choi Won-joon allowed four runs in three ⅓ innings early on, but the team was able to secure a complete victory thanks to bullpen pitchers` good pitching in five scoreless innings and a huge explosion in batters. If it had lost to SSG on the day, Doosan would have lost to fourth place with four more games to go. For now, it has overcome the last crisis.

The confirmation of entering the fall baseball league is just around the corner, but the worries are still ongoing. It is the sluggishness of foreign pitchers.

Doosan manager Lee Seung-yeop, who met with reporters ahead of the SSG match on the 24th, brought up foreign pitchers' stories while briefing on the current physical conditions of injured players including Yang Eui-ji and Heo Kyung-min. "I have nothing to say. I think I've been struggling to come this far for a year, but foreign players have not been able to do their part," Lee said, expressing regret.

The pitching by Jordan Balazovic, who was the starting pitcher on the previous day, came to mind. Balazovic started the game against the LG Twins in Jamsil on Tuesday but lost the game by allowing seven runs in five ⅔ innings in the final result after losing a lot of points in the first inning. He continued to allow long balls in critical situations including two homers, making the game difficult. Doosan is close to confirming its fourth place ranking, but its bitter taste was that it had only one win and two losses in three matches that could have pushed the third-ranked LG harder.

The management of foreign pitchers has been twisted due to poor performance by Raul Alcantara. Doosan re-signed Alcantara for 1.5 million dollars (including 200,000 dollars in incentive) and Brandon Waddell for 1.13 million dollars (including 130,000 dollars in incentive), and hired new foreign hitter Henry Ramos (down payment of 50,000, annual salary of 550,000 and incentive of 100,000 dollars) ahead of this season, but none of them are currently in the first team roster.

Alcantara, who receives an annual salary of nearly 2 billion won, was eventually kicked out as he was below expectations in many ways, and Balazovic was hired as a substitute. Balazovic, who was expected to play an ace-class role, seemed to adapt to the league in the beginning, but left a shocking report card of five wins without winning the last seven games.

On top of that, Brandon is out for the regular season after taking the mound on June 23 as his injury continued this year following last year. As substitute player Keisho Shirakawa also moved to Japan without completing his contract due to injury, Doosan is currently holding out as a foreign pitcher. 토토사이트

Fortunately, Ramos' replacement hitter Jared Young is doing his part to some extent, but it is frustrating that key foreign pitchers who should take charge of the "one-two punch" are sluggish or not even able to take the mound at all.

Fortunately, he is holding out with a strong bullpen. Manager Lee Seung-yeop also thanked the team, saying, "Middle pitchers have been really strong and made it to this point. Our bullpen pitchers have been doing great work for us. We have to endure the remaining four games no matter what."

Even in the postseason, however, concerns persist over starting pitchers. Although there are Korean agents who can be led by Kwak Bin, Choi Won-joon and Choi Seung-yong, the lack of strong first starting pitchers, especially foreigners, is deepening the coach's concerns.