You left the Dodgers...'Four teams in four years' 209 Home Run Journeyman will finally settle with 54 billion contracts
You left the Dodgers...'Four teams in four years' 209 Home Run Journeyman will finally settle with 54 billion contracts
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"Jack Pederson, who played with Ryu Hyun-jin for the Los Angeles Dodgers in the Major League, will wear the uniform of another team next season." Having played for four teams over the past four years, Pederson will play for the Texas Rangers next year.
Pederson, who made his big league debut with the Dodgers in 2014, is a familiar player to Korean fans as he played together before Ryu Hyun-jin left for the Toronto Blue Jays in 2020.
Pederson appeared in 151 games in 2015 and had a low batting average of 201, but was selected as an All-Star with 36 home runs, 54 RBIs and an OPS of .763. In 2019, he had a batting average of 249, 36 home runs, 74 RBIs and an OPS of .876 in 149 games.
In the shortened season (60 games per team) due to the COVID-19 pandemic in 2020, the team showed sluggish performance with a batting average of 190. However, he had a batting average of 389 (7 hits in 18 at-bats) with one homer, three RBIs and an OPS of .977 in the Championship Series, and a batting average of .40 (four hits in 10 at-bats) with one homer, three RBIs and an OPS of 1.200 in the World Series.
Pederson became a free agent for the first time after winning the World Series. Pederson, a left-handed hitter, started as a right-handed pitcher with the platoon system for the Dodgers, but was mostly benched for left-handed pitchers. He was not offered a jackpot contract in the free agent market.
Pederson left the Dodgers and signed a one-year, $7 million contract with the Chicago Cubs, which could guarantee him a chance to play when he became a free agent. Pederson was traded to the Atlanta Braves during the season and won the World Series again in Atlanta.
Feathers has become an FA again and signed a six-million-dollar contract for one year with the San Francisco Giants ahead of the 2022 season. In 134 games for San Francisco, he garnered a batting average of 274, 23 homers and 70 RBIs, and rebounded with an OPS of .874. He had the most home runs and the highest OPS since 2019. He was also honored as the second All-Star.
At the end of the season, San Francisco offered Pederson a qualifying offer, and Pederson accepted a qualifying offer of $1.65 million for one year, continuing his relationship with the San Francisco Giants. However, his performance fell to .764, batting average of 2335 with 15 homers and 51 RBIs in 121 games in the 2023 season.
Pederson, who became an FA again after the 2023 season, signed a two-year, maximum $23.5 million contract with the Arizona Diamondbacks. The terms were $9.5 million in salary in 2024, $14 million in salary as mutual options in 2025, and $3 million in buyouts if the options were not implemented.
Pederson has bounced back with a batting average of 275, 23 homers, 64 RBIs and an OPS of .908 in 132 games this season for the Arizona Diamondbacks. He is the first player in his career to surpass the OPS of .900. Pederson, who posted the best record, rejected the option of $14 million in salary for next year and opted for an FA again after receiving a $3 million buyout.
U.S. media, 스포츠토토 including MLB.com , said on the 24th that Pederson agreed to a two-year, $37 million (about 54 billion won) contract with the Texas Rangers. It includes an opt-out clause that allows him to play for a year and become an FA again. Texas is the fifth team after the Cubs, Atlanta, San Francisco and Arizona since 2021 when he left the LA Dodgers. Attention is focusing on whether Pederson, who has recorded 209 home runs so far this year, will play for Texas next season and become an FA due to opt-out.