The best friend who dreamed of the big league together was reunited in 4 years from '13,41km' away…Smiling at the "offensive pitcher" compliment
The best friend who dreamed of the big league together was reunited in 4 years from '13,41km' away…Smiling at the "offensive pitcher" compliment
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The rare joint training of the Korea-Japan brothers' club led to a unique meeting between their long-separated best friends.온라인카지노
The Lotte Giants of professional baseball and the Nippon Professional Baseball (NPB) Chiba Lotte Marines of the Japanese professional baseball league (NPB) were together for two consecutive days until the exchange match on February 28 and joint training and the confrontation of the Guchun League on March 1 under the auspices of Lotte Group. The exchange match was 1-3 and the Guchun League game was 3-4, respectively.
On the day of their joint training, Lotte foreign players Charlie Barnes and Tucker Davidson toured the Chiba Lotte practice range together. They also greeted foreign players from Chiba Lotte, including Neftali Soto.
In the meantime, there was someone who Barnes was especially happy with. This is Brian Samans, a foreign pitcher who will play for Chiba Lotte starting this year.
Barnes and Barnes were the same age as the 2017 MLB draft. Barnes was drafted by the Minnesota Twins in the fourth round and Samans in the eighth round.
The two, who dreamed of becoming major leagues together, met again in Miyazaki, more than 10,000 kilometers away from Minneapolis, where Minnesota's home stadium, Target Field, is located.
Barnes was the first to play in the major leagues. Barnes played in a total of nine games (eight starts) and 38 innings in the Big League in 2021.
However, he ended the season with only three losses and an ERA of 5.92 without a win, and has been with the Lotte Giants since the following year. He played a total of 86 games and 507 ⅓ innings in three seasons, recording 32 wins and 28 losses and an ERA of 3.42. He is set to enter his fourth year with the Lotte Giants.
Samans played in the minor leagues steadily, but did not get a chance to make a big league call-up in Minnesota. After being released from the team in 2022, Samans moved to the Detroit Tigers in 2023, and finally made his big league debut in July last year, his second year on the transfer. In his debut, he pitched once and took charge of as many as seven ⅓ innings, serving as a long relief. However, he played only six games. When he moved back to the minor leagues, he chose to go to Japan.
They exchanged bright smiles and said hello to each other. "We are friends who played in Minnesota together. We met for the first time since 2020," Barnes said.
When asked about "the advice I want to give Samans, the first year of overseas expansion," Barnes said, "If you play in Korea, I can do it, but I don't play in Japan…"I feel awkward," he said. "I hope you enjoy your experience in overseas leagues."
Meanwhile, Samans praised Barnes, saying, "He is a pitcher who thoroughly competes within a strike zone. He knows how to catch batters through aggressive pitching."