This year’s Korean Series runners-up, KT Wiz, have signed Mel Rojas Jr. and William Cuevas through the 2024 season.
KT announced today that it has signed 2020 regular season MVP Mel Rojas for a total of $900,000. Rojas led the KT batting order from 2017 to 2020. In all four seasons, he posted a triple-digit batting average and double-digit home runs. In 2020, his last year in Japan, he was named the regular-season MVP after leading the league in home runs (47), RBIs (135), runs scored (116), and slugging percentage (.680). 카지노사이트킴 He used his KBO success to join the Hanshin Tigers in Japan, but struggled to hit .220 with 17 home runs in two seasons.
KT re-signed Cuevas for a total of $1.5 million. Cuevas joined KT in 2019 and played two seasons with Rojas. He left the team during the 2022 season due to an elbow injury, but returned as a substitute this season, going 12-0 with a 2.60 ERA in 18 games and helping the team reach the Korean Series.