A rookie player in the U.S. professional baseball team who sent the team to a loss by informing the opponent team’s batter who entered the batter’s box.
ESPN announced on the 13th (Korea time) that it released catcher Derek Bender from the Single-A Fort Myers Mighty Muscles under the Minnesota Twins. 스포츠토토
According to reports, Bender exposed specific pitching information to be thrown by starting pitcher Ross Dunn in Game 2 of the doubleheader against the Lakeland Flying Tigers (Single A under Detroit) on the 7th.
In that game, Fort Myers was eliminated from playoff contention in a 0-6 loss.
After the game, the Fort Myers coaching team learned the whole story of the absurd incident only after hearing from coach Lakeland about the vendor’s “sign exposure.”
Bender was nominated in the sixth round of the MLB Rookie Draft held in July this year.
The down payment for joining the team was $297,500 (about 400 million won), which was expected to be a catcher with excellent slugging power, even if not a huge prospect.
Bender’s overall performance in the three college seasons is 0.326, 32 homers and 153 RBIs.
Since joining Minnesota, he has played in 19 Single-A games with a batting average of 0.200, two homers and eight RBIs.
The reason why Bender did this two months after wearing his dream uniform is because he wants the season to end soon.
ESPN quoted a source as saying, “Bender told his teammates, ‘I hope the season ends soon.’
