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The Baltimore Orioles have acquired Shintaro Fujinami (29) from the Oakland Athletics ahead of the trade deadline deadline." Baltimore is a team that recently beat the Tampa Bay Rays with 58 wins and 37 losses (.611 win rate) and ranked first in the American League East Division. Baltimore, which is accelerating its advance into the postseason, began to reinforce its pitching staff ahead of the trade deadline, and its first target was Fujinami. 'MLB.com' also reported the background of recruiting Fujinami, saying, "Baltimore needed to reinforce the pitching staff. And finally took the first step in pitching reinforcement."
Fujinami became famous as a rival to Shohei Otani (29, LA Angels) in high school. After spending 10 seasons with the Nippon Professional Baseball Hanshin Tigers, he entered the major leagues wearing an Oakland uniform this year. 안전놀이터His start was hardship itself. Getting off to a rocky start as he went 4-0 with a 14.40 earned run average in his first 4 games. Then Oakland made a breakthrough by changing Fujinami's position to a bullpen pitcher.
Fujinami has appeared in 17 games since June, striking out 20 in 19⅓ innings and showing a stable ERA with a 3.26 ERA. In particular, in the seven games that came out in July, he is showing progressively better pitching with an ERA of 2.25. His performance this season was 5-8 with an ERA of 8.57. He struck out 51 batters in 49⅓ innings.' Fujinami's best weapon is, of course, his four-seam fastball. She averaged 98 miles per hour (158 km) as well as clocked her best of 102.1 miles (164 km). Baltimore has an 'all-star duo' on its relief pitching team: setup man Yenier Cano and closer Felix Batista. If Fujinami joins the winning team, it is expected that Baltimore's bullpen will become even more powerful.
This is the second time Baltimore has acquired a Japanese-born player. Prior to Fujinami, Koji Uehara played for Baltimore from 2009 to 2011. The Korean player who played for Baltimore was Kim Hyun-soo. Kim Hyun-soo joined Baltimore in 2016 and made his major league debut, and was traded to the Philadelphia Phillies during the 2017 season. Baltimore also recruited Seok-min Yoon before Kim Hyun-soo, but Seok-min Yoon returned to the KIA after touring the minor leagues.
