KIA in the Korean Professional Baseball (KBO) League has recruited a new foreign pitcher.

KIA reported on the 16th (Korea Standard Time) that it signed a contract with new foreign pitcher Adam Oler (30) for a total of $1 million (about KRW 1,459.2 million), including a down payment of $200,000, an annual salary of $600,000, and an option of $200,000 depending on the performance results.

The right-handed pitcher made his first major league debut as a member of the Oakland Athletics in 2022. This year marks his third year in the Major League, and he pitched in 36 games (23 starts) with a record of 5 wins, 13 losses and 6.54 ERA.토토사이트

Regardless of the success or failure of his big league career, Aller has already taken a difficult path for KIA to be his ninth team since entering the professional league in 2016. It means that he has literally gone through all the 'pivotal games'. Therefore, his 'baseball life' has great implications for fans as well.

Born in Texas, U.S., Oler contributed greatly in high school as a pitcher and catcher to help his baseball team advance to the state championship. Even after going to college, Oler was talented enough to play as a pitcher and catcher.

Aller entered the professional league after being nominated by Pittsburgh in the 20th round of the Major League Rookie Draft in 2016. He was not a player who received much attention when he was an amateur, as his nomination ranking suggests. The down payment was only 70,000 U.S. dollars.

Aller, who started his professional career with the minor league rookie team under the Pittsburgh Pirates, pitched in a total of 13 games with an ERA of 4.45. In 2017, he pitched well with an ERA of 1.59 for the Single-A Row team, which is a step up. However, he was released after the end of the season when he was sluggish with an ERA of 6.29 for the 2018 Single-A High.

When no one called him out, Oler headed to the independent league. He started four games in the independent league in 2019, and pitched well with a 2-1 record and 0.67 ERA. Then, in May of the same year, San Francisco submitted a minor league contract to him, paving the way for him to return to professional life.

Aller, who played for the San Francisco Minor League Single-A team that year, appeared in 17 games and posted 5-6 record with an ERA of 4.02. Then, he moved to the New York Mets through the Rule 5 draft held in December that year. However, due to the COVID-19 incident, the entire 2020 minor league season was canceled, forcing him to waste a year.

When the minor league season returned in 2021, Aller played in a total of 23 games, including double and triple A teams, and posted a good record of 9 wins, 4 losses and an ERA of 3.45. It was his best performance since he became a professional. Then, the New York Mets included him on the 40-man roster of Major League teams after the end of the season in order not to exclude him from other teams in the Rule Five draft. It was his first victory in five years since he entered the professional league.

Aller was traded to the Oakland Athletics in March 2022. However, Oller had a chance to make the 26-man roster for the opening game of the year. He made his Major League debut on April 12 (local time) in the same year against the Tampa Bay Royals.

However, his performance in the first year of the big league was not good, with two wins and eight losses and an earned run average of 6.30. In 2023, he was released after going 1-1 with an earned run average of 10.07. However, Seattle seemed to seize the opportunity to rebound by recruiting him again, but he was not good even in the Minor League Triple-A with six wins, four losses and an earned run average of 5.51. At the end of the season, Seattle excluded him from the 40-man roster of the Major League Baseball. It was a de facto release.

In the winter of 2023, Aller signed a minor league contract with Cleveland, expressing his intention to challenge once again. Playing for the minor league Triple-A under Cleveland this year, Aller appeared in 12 games (six starts) and was sluggish with an ERA of 7.48. In July of the same year, Aller faced another blade of release.

Aller's baseball career, which seemed to be about to go out, was able to revive as Miami reached out to him. Miami, which traded the majority of its main players by switching to a "rebuilding" structure this season, lacked players.

In the end, Aller not only continued his career through Miami, but also produced a reversal drama in which he returned to the Major League in August after pitching well with three wins and no losses with a 2.88 ERA in Triple A.

After returning to the big league after joining the Miami Marlins this season, he started a total of eight games, recording two wins, four losses and an ERA of 5.31. It was the best performance in his big league career. Nevertheless, when the Miami Marlins excluded him from the 40-man roster after the end of the season, he decided to go to Korea by stamping the contract that Kia submitted.

Right-handed pitcher Oler is known to be equipped with a total of five pitching types. He threw four-seam fastballs the most, followed by slobs, curveballs, changeups and sliders. His speed is the fastest at 93.7 miles (about 150 kilometers) in total, and his curveball is the slowest at 81.5 miles (about 131 kilometers). As the speed difference between the four-seam and the curveball is about 20 kilometers, the speed felt by proper mixing of balls is expected to be even greater.

To Aller, Kia will become the ninth team in its professional career. As the figures suggest, it has taken a difficult course. Still, the will to never give up and the spirit to challenge themselves have great implications for fans.