It’s a good contract for Maeda, who turns 36 in the 2024 season. 스포츠토토 The annual salary for the 2024 season is 14 million dollars and the annual salary for 2025 is 10 million dollars. The condition of receiving a higher salary in the first year is advantageous for the player.
Maeda’s trip to Detroit may be the answer in the future in conjunction with Ryu Hyun-jin’s FA contract. This is because the steps are very similar. Ryu Hyun-jin was born in 1987 and is one year older than Maeda. He made his MLB debut in 2013 and has a lot of experience.
Maeda, who was part of the Minnesota Twins, underwent Tommy John Surgery on the elbow ligament in September 2021. Committed to rehabilitation for the entire season in 2022, and returned in 2023. He pitched in 21 games this year with six wins, eight losses and a 4.23 ERA. He pitched 104.1 innings.
Toronto Blue Jays left-hander Ryu Hyun-jin played Tommy John Surgery in June 2022. Rehabilitation returned on August 2, 2023. In 11 games, he recorded 3 wins, 3 losses, and 3.46 and pitched 52.0 innings.
Currently, Ryu Hyun-jin is not mentioned in the FA market. This year, there are plenty of starters in the FA market. Japanese Yoshinobu Yamamoto, left-hander Blake Snell, Jordan Montgomery, and Shota Imanaga are looking for bird nests.
Aaron Nola moved his nest with the Philadelphia Phillies for seven years and $172 million, and Sonny Gray moved with the St. Louis Cardinals for three years and $75 million. Shohei Ohtani, who doubles as a pitcher, cannot take the mound in the 2024 season due to elbow surgery.
For Ryu Hyun-jin, it would be best if he signed a multi-year contract like Maeda with an annual salary of more than $10 million. I don’t know how talented Super Agent Scott Boras will be, but the possibility of signing a multi-year contract is slim.
Lance Lynn and Kyle Gibson, 36, signed a one-year contract with St. Louis. 1+1 is actually a one-year contract. All MLB’s one-year contracts are conditional on 1+1 with buyouts. Lynn is $11 million, Gibson is $12 million.
There is a reason why Maeda signed a multi-year contract early despite his 4.23 ERA. It is a difference from Ryu Hyun-jin. It’s ball speed and strikeout. Ryu’s ERA is much better at 3.46 in a short inning.
Maeda struck out 117 while pitching 104.1 innings this year. 28 walks. The strikeout and walk ratio is very good at 4.18. Ryu has struck out 38 and walked 14 in 52 innings. Strikeout: Ballnet is 2.71. Maeda’s average speed of four-seam fastballs this year was 146.4 kilometers 91 miles and Ryu’s speed of 143 kilometers 88.8 miles.
In MLB, pitchers strike out and batters call home runs. Maeda also has more strikeouts 951 than pitching innings 866.1. Ryu has 934 strikeouts in 1,055.1 innings. The indicator of more strikeouts than pitching innings means that the ball power is still useful. Lance Lynn was also sluggish with 13 wins, 11 losses and 5.73 this year, but he had 191 strikeouts in 183.2 innings.
Maeda made very unfavorable conditions when signing with the Los Angeles Dodgers in 2016, to the point where the team union stepped up. It had incentivized an eight-year, $25 million basic contract. The annual salary for 2023 was only $3.125 million. In other words, he received a normal ransom this time.