David Buchanan of the Lehigh Valley Iron Pigs took the mound again. In the top of the fourth inning when his team was trailing the 2024 Minor League Triple-A Norfolk Ties 1-6 at Allentown Coca Cola Park in Pennsylvania, the U.S. on Monday (Korea time), he pitched three hits, five strikeouts and two walks in three ⅔ innings. 토토사이트 추천
Buchanan appeared in 113 games with the Samsung Lions in the KBO League from 2020 to 2023, going 54-28 with a 3.02 ERA. The Samsung Lions offered Buchanan a multi-year contract ahead of this season. However, Buchanan refused and signed a minor contract with the Philadelphia Phillies.
However, Lehigh Valley has shown poor performance. He had four wins and three losses and an earned run average of 5.19 in 14 games. He had a batting average of 0.303 and WHIP of 1.49. Surprisingly, the only game he played before the day of this season was the match against Wilkes-Barry Leiliders on April 17 (four innings, one hit, four strikeouts, and no run).
He lost no points in 11 games since the game against Wilkes-Barry. He has lost points in 10 consecutive games, posting an ERA of around five points and a hit rate of over 300. Consequently, he was excluded from the starting lineup from the game against the Syracuse Mets on Wednesday last week, before switching to the bullpen. He lost points in two consecutive games, but did not lose points for the first time on the day.
As soon as he took the mound in the fourth inning, he struck out Kyle Stowers, Billy Cook, and Anthony Servidio one after another. He mixed two types of balls around the 90s, changeup around the 80s, cutter around the late 80s, and curveball around the mid 70s. After being hit to the left by Conor Pavoloni in the fifth inning, he handled the three batters with a blunder. With runners on the first and second bases with one out, Cook had 91.8 miles of fighting spirit, but he was lucky to have a double play by the third baseman.
The Philadelphia Phillies are the strongest team in the National League along with the Los Angeles Dodgers this season. The starting lineup does not need reinforcement. Even if Buchanan has good performance as a starting pitcher in Triple-A, it is not easy for him to call up the Major League. However, he currently has no chance to start as a starting pitcher in Triple-A. First of all, he needs to throw good pitches in the bullpen, then return to the starting lineup to improve his performance.
Even if this process takes place, the stumbling block is that he is 35 years old. As Buchanan is not young, it is questionable whether there will be a team that puts Buchanan in its future plans and uses him as a starting pitcher. What if Buchanan had accepted Samsung’s multi-year contract? There is no way to go.