The SSG Landers introduced that right-hander Mitch White has agreed to a one-year, $1MM contract with the Korea Baseball Group crew. White elected to turn into a minor league free agent at season’s finish, after he was beforehand outrighted off the Brewers’ 40-man roster again in June.
A second-round decide for the Dodgers within the 2016 draft, White drew some top-100 consideration throughout his time within the Los Angeles farm system, and he cracked the large leagues through the shortened 2020 marketing campaign. White posted a 3.58 ERA, 22.02% strikeout price, and eight.31% stroll price over 105 2/3 innings with the Dodgers from 2020-22, working as both starter or reliever primarily based on the crew’s wants.
L.A. typically shuttled White backwards and forwards between Triple-A and the majors in as a part of this swingman function, and finally discovered him expendable sufficient to be dealt to the Blue Jays on the 2022 commerce deadline. The deal seemingly derailed White’s profession, because the right-hander has badly struggled towards MLB hitters since leaving the Dodgers group. He posted a 7.74 ERA in 43 innings for the Jays for the remainder of the 2022 season, and a 7.18 ERA in 36 1/3 innings since Opening Day 2023.
White’s 2024 workload of 23 2/3 innings was cut up between Toronto, San Francisco, and Milwaukee. The Giants picked White up from the Jays after Toronto designated him for task in April, and the Brewers acquired him a couple of weeks later after the Giants additionally despatched him to DFA limbo. White’s solely time within the minor leagues was spent with the Brewers’ Triple-A affiliate, and his numbers (4.06 ERA, 27.2% strikeout price, and eight.8% stroll price) have been no less than a marked enchancment over his time within the Present.
Since White’s possibilities of touchdown a assured contract from a Main League crew this winter weren’t nice, the transfer to South Korea permits White (who turns 30 in December) the chance to lock in a seven-figure wage. A powerful exhibiting with the Landers may put White again onto the radar for MLB groups subsequent offseason, if he had curiosity in making a reasonably fast return to North American baseball. Taking part in within the KBO League additionally some further private attraction t0 White, whose mom is Korean.
