Doosan Bears signed outfielder Jake Cave, who played in 123 games in the Major League Baseball (MLB) this year.바카라사이트

As negotiations with Jared Young on renewing the contract became difficult, Doosan worked hard on recruiting Cave and succeeded in catching the "active big leaguer."

Doosan announced on the 26th that it signed a total of $1 million (down payment of $200,000 and annual salary of $800,000) with foreign batter Cave.

Cave, a left-handed left-handed outfielder with a U.S. nationality, has a physical condition of 183 centimeters and a weight of 93 kilograms. Cave, who was drafted 209th overall in the sixth round by the New York Yankees in the 2011 rookie draft, made his big league debut in 2018 by wearing the Minnesota Twins uniform.

So far this year, Cave has played in 523 games in seven seasons in MLB, batting average of 0.236, on-base plus slugging percentage (OPS) of 0.692, 45 homers and 176 RBIs.

He played in 123 MLB games this year for the Colorado Rockies. He had a batting average of 0.251, seven homers and 37 RBIs this season.

His career performance in the eight minor league Triple-A seasons is 427 games, a batting average of 0.303, an OPS of 0.893, 64 home runs, and 256 RBIs.

Cave was a "full-time big leaguer" who never went down to the minor leagues in 2024.

Cave's 2024 salary was $1 million, according to Spotrac, a site specializing in MLB salaries.

Cave became a free agent (FA) on October 19, but decided that he could not guarantee an MLB guarantee contract due to poor batting this year.

In the end, he signed with Doosan for $1 million, the highest amount of new foreign players in the KBO.

"Cave is an MLB-class outfielder whose strength is fast bat speed, which comes from strong wrist strength. He also has the ability to play defense in the outfield and a sensible base running ability to cover Jamsil Baseball Stadium," a Doosan official said.

Upon signing the contract with Cave, Doosan completed the formation of three foreign players for the 2025 season. Doosan, which has already said goodbye to all foreign players, signed contracts worth 1 million U.S. dollars each with three new foreign players.

Left-handed pitcher Cole Irvin, who pitched in 29 big league games (16 starts) this year with 6-6, one hold and a 5.11 ERA, and right-handed Thomas Hatch, who has experienced MLB and the Japanese Professional Baseball (NPB), will make a one-two punch.