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'Christmas jackpot' exploded in the professional baseball FA market. First of all, Yang Hyeon-jong, who had a hard time negotiating with his former team Kia, became the first pitcher to exceed 10 billion won in total and confirmed his return to Kia.
Byung-min Yoo.
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KIA club announced that they signed a four-year contract with Yang Hyun-jong for a total of 10.3 billion won.
A down payment of 3 billion won, total guaranteed annual salary of 2.5 billion won, and options based on grades are 4.8 billion won.
So far, 10 players have surpassed 10 billion won in FA total in professional baseball, and Yang Hyun-jong is the first pitcher.
Yang Hyun-jong, who returned to Korea after completing his American stage challenge in October, had four official negotiations with the KIA. .
KIA finally presented 5.5 billion won as a guarantee, which is 700 million won more than the option two days ago, and Yang Hyun-jong put a stamp on the end of the django.
[Hyunjong Yang/Pitcher KIA: It seems like you are back at home. I really want to say a word to KIA fans. 'I'm home.' Last year's team performance wasn't good, but (next year) we will do our best to finish with a much higher ranking.]
KIA, which fell to ninth for the first time last year, recruited bigpo Seong-beom Na and returned to ace Hyeon-jong Yang. As we wrap up, we succeeded in reinforcing our strength to advance to the fall baseball for the first time in four years.
(Video editing: Park Chun-bae)