Proper-handed pitcher William Cuevas is coming again for an additional 12 months with the KT Wiz of the KBO. His contract, introduced by the staff and relayed over X by Dan Kurtz of MyKBO.internet and Jiheon Pae, is value $1.5MM in US {dollars}. The 2025 season would be the righty’s seventh with the membership.
Cuevas, now 34, initially signed with the Crimson Sox as an 18-year-old worldwide free agent in 2009. He would finally bounce from the Crimson Sox, to the Tigers, to the Marlins, and again to the Crimson Sox, showing in massive league video games for Boston and Detroit. He pitched to an 8.06 ERA and 4.92 SIERA in 22 1/3 MLB innings.
After the 2018 season, the Crimson Sox launched Cuevas so he might pursue a possibility within the KBO. From 2019-22, he pitched for the Wiz on a sequence of one-year contracts. Nonetheless, he was launched early within the 2022 season after struggling an elbow harm. Fortuitously for Cuevas, the difficulty proved to not be too critical. He was in a position to make an look for the Diablos Rojos del México of the Mexican League later that 12 months.
Cuevas returned to affiliated ball the next season, signing a minor league contract with the Dodgers in April 2023. He pitched 44 innings for Triple-A Oklahoma Metropolis, placing out 43, strolling 20, and giving up 13 residence runs, leading to a 6.14 ERA and seven.47 FIP. On June 8, the Dodgers launched Cuevas, permitting him to re-sign with the Wiz the following day. Whereas his efficiency at Triple-A wasn’t precisely spectacular, he clearly did sufficient to show to his former membership that his elbow was again to full power. Certainly, he put up a 2.60 ERA and a pair of.79 FIP in 114 1/3 IP over the rest of the KBO season.
Contemporary off his profitable 2023 marketing campaign, Cuevas earned one other contract from the Wiz. He didn’t look almost as sharp in 2024 as he did the 12 months earlier than, producing a 4.10 ERA and 4.39 FIP. Nonetheless, he was sturdy and dependable, giving the staff 31 begins and 173 1/3 IP. Solely two KBO pitchers threw extra innings this previous season, and just one made extra begins. Thus, it comes as little shock that the Wiz have welcomed Cuevas again as soon as once more for 2025.
