10 wins in Samsung for 3 years and 13 wins in ML in 1 year...Threefold annual salary increase, fresh start to 'ERA 1.00' from March
10 wins in Samsung for 3 years and 13 wins in ML in 1 year...Threefold annual salary increase, fresh start to 'ERA 1.00' from March
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He only had 10 wins in the KBO League for three years. However, he had 13 wins in the Major League in the 2024 season. He received compensation by tripling his salary, and has displayed good performance in exhibition games this season.
Ben Lively started the away exhibition game against the Kansas City Royals in the 2025 Major League Baseball held at Surprise Stadium in Surprise, Arizona, and secured his second win by allowing three hits, three strikeouts and one walk in four innings. He threw 55 pitches and had 39 strikes.
Lively pitched in 36 games for the Samsung Lions from 2019 to 2021, recording 10-12 losses and a 4.14 ERA. He was a rare pitcher. He joined the team in the middle of the 2019 season and won four games, and played full time in 2020. As he showed poor performance again in the 2021 season, his relationship with Samsung ended.
Lively, however, immediately returned to the U.S. and continued his career. Although he rested during the 2021 season, he went 2-5 with a 4.09 ERA in 18 Triple-A games in 2022. He returned to the Major League Baseball in 2023 with the Cincinnati Reds, where he went 4-7 with a 5.38 ERA in 19 games.
In fact, his performance thus far was not impressive enough. However, he entered the Major League by signing a $750,000 contract with the Cleveland Guardians before the 2024 season, and posted 13 wins, 10 losses and an earned run average of 3.81 in 29 games. He had 118 strikeouts during 151 innings. He had a batting average of 0.241 and a WHIP of 1.25.
He is not the type to press batters with ball power, but he has achieved much better performance in the Major League than in the Samsung Lions. According to Baseball Servant, Lively's average pitch speed at four points in the 2024 season was only 89.9 miles. His batting average was 0.289. However, he could not ignore the batting average of 0.212, the sweeper hit rate of 0.231, the curve hit rate of 0.206, and the slider hit rate of 0.238.
The Cleveland Indians acquired Lively's signature by offering him an annual salary of 2.25 million dollars. Lively will then exert his best efforts at exhibition games this year. He has two wins and an earned run average of 1.00 in three games through Sunday. Even if it doesn't have much meaning, he apparently worked out well while he was inactive.
He threw a low slider to Bobby Witt Jr. in the first inning, but he got a double to the left. He caught a line drive to the shortstop with a 90.5-mile sinker. Freddie Permin hit a double to the left in the second inning when he put a curve ball to the left, but this was also a well-made hit by Permin. Thus, he managed to endure through the fourth inning.
Players from other 먹튀검증 KBO leagues are not drawing as much attention as other KBO league players. This is due to the fact that the KBO league has not displayed significant performance. However, he has displayed the best performance among the so-called "major league players" who have been exported to other major leagues in the 2024 season. He could become a cost-effective player of all time.