"Binge-watching videos of more than 90 KBO hitters" Kiwoom's only foreign pitcher really means it. "It's natural as an ace."

"Binge-watching videos of more than 90 KBO hitters" Kiwoom's only foreign pitcher really means it. "It's natural as an ace."

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Professional baseball Kiwoom Heroes Kenny Rosenberg (30) will challenge the KBO League in a serious manner.온라인바카라

Rosenberg is a left-handed pitcher with two wins and three losses and an earned run average of 4.66 in 17 games (67 ⅔ innings) in the Major League. He only played in five games as a starter in the Major League, but started in 115 games in the Minor League. His overall performance in the Minor League was 52 wins and 38 losses with four saves and an earned run average of 4.06 in 163 games (719 ⅔ innings). The maximum speed he recorded in the Major League last season was 92.7 miles per hour (149.2 kilometers per hour), but he was not short of strikeouts in the Minor League as he recorded 9.23 strikeouts per nine innings.

Rosenberg, who is preparing for his first season in Korea, said in an interview on the 19th, "I prepared well in the first Arizona camp, and the accommodation is comfortable in Taiwan, and I'm adapting well because I helped my teammates and coaching staff comfortably. I'm almost perfectly doing well," he said in preparing for the season. "It's not easy to adjust to the time difference, but I slept so well on the plane coming to Taiwan. My physical condition and condition are the best because I rested well and trained well for a few days."

This year, Kiwoom has displayed an extraordinary performance by using only one foreign pitcher, Rosenberg. To strengthen its batting lineup, Kiwoom has decided to use two foreign hitters (Jaciel Puig and Ruben Cardinez). Rosenberg, who has to play the ace role, has heavy shoulders.

"That said, I've always had to prove that I can be a part of the team in this spring camp," Rosenberg said. "But now I'm starting the camp as the first starter. I feel less pressure, so I've been able to do my body building process a little bit more faithfully."

Kiwoom had a lot of outstanding left-handers, including Andy Van Hekken, Eric Jokish and Enmanuel de Heysus. Rosenberg, who said, "I know Kiwoom has such a left-hander lineage, too," said, "I would be lying if such expectations were not burdensome. I also feel responsible, but what I often say in the U.S. is that 'pressure is a privilege'. I want to always keep that in mind, think about my family in the U.S., and show the responsibility I have to my fans."

Rosenberg, who is serious about preparing for the season, used two curves while pitching a bullpen session and checked whether the two curves were clearly divided. "In the Major League, pitchers try to show the dynamism of the pitch type by controlling the speed of a breaking ball," Rosenberg said. "I throw two curves, but the grip is almost the same. I've thrown slow curves for a long time, but I've added fast curves recently. Fast curves help induce batters to swing and miss."

Rosenberg, who can throw fastballs, curves, sliders, and changeups, chose changeups as his most confident pitching style. "I can changeups whenever I need them, regardless of whether I hit left or right batters," Rosenberg said. "I like Deception for my changeups. There is little difference between fastballs and the motions that the changeups throw. And I can poke the ball wherever I want."

Rosenberg, who is preparing for the season with a sense of responsibility as an ace, made a lot of efforts to quickly adapt to the KBO league during the offseason. Rosenberg, who said, "I watched a lot of videos of Korean hitters when I decided to go to Korea," said, "I haven't watched all the videos of all the batters in the team and all the batters who have the potential to enter the starting lineup from No. 1 to No. 9 have checked the video and watched how they deal with left-handed pitchers."

As it would not have been easy to watch all the videos of more than 80 to 90 hitters, Rosenberg laughed, saying, "I watched the videos of hitters even before the contract with Kium was officially announced. Considering what I have to do as an ace and the responsibility, it was not that difficult to watch the video."

Rosenberg, who closely analyzed Korean hitters, said, "The difference from the Major League seems to be whether batters value power or contact. Batters from No. 1 to No. 4 usually have both contact and power, but there seem to be contact-oriented hitters who try to create in-play if they go below No. 5-6. In that regard, I thought about how to compete with batters as a left-handed pitcher."