{"id":420929,"date":"2026-01-20T07:20:07","date_gmt":"2026-01-20T07:20:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/420929\/"},"modified":"2026-01-20T07:20:07","modified_gmt":"2026-01-20T07:20:07","slug":"anthony-veneziano-signs-with-kbos-ssg-landers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/420929\/","title":{"rendered":"Anthony Veneziano Signs With KBO’s SSG Landers"},"content":{"rendered":"

The SSG Landers of the Korea Baseball Organization announced this evening that they\u2019ve signed left-hander\u00a0Anthony Veneziano<\/a>. The KHG Sports Management client receives a $750K salary and can make another $100K in incentives.<\/p>\n

As noted by Dan Kurtz of MyKBO<\/a>, the signing comes after the Landers pulled out of their agreement with right-hander Drew VerHagen<\/a>. The club\u2019s medical team had flagged an undisclosed issue with VerHagen\u2019s physical. He\u2019ll return to free agency. That opened a roster spot for a second non-Pacific foreign pitcher alongside righty\u00a0Mitch White<\/a>, who is back for his second season with the team. They targeted Veneziano, who was granted his release from a minor league contract with the Rangers to pursue the opportunity.<\/p>\n

The 28-year-old Veneziano heads overseas for the first time in his career. He\u2019d been in affiliated ball since 2019, when the Royals took him as a 10th-round draftee out of Coastal Carolina. Veneziano worked as a starter for most of his minor league career. He has been a full-time reliever in the big leagues, only starting one of 40 appearances as an opener. Veneziano has suited up with Kansas City, Miami and St. Louis. He owns a 3.98 ERA with a 21.3% strikeout rate over 40 2\/3 MLB innings.<\/p>\n

While Veneziano\u2019s big league track record is reasonably solid, he\u2019s coming off a tough season working out of the bullpen in Triple-A. That limited him to a minor league deal He\u2019ll instead get a guaranteed contract that pays close to what he would have made had he cracked the Texas bullpen. It\u2019s likely he\u2019ll also get an opportunity to build back up as a starter. The foreign player limit for KBO teams means they\u2019re unlikely to use one of those spots on players they\u2019d project as relievers. If he pitches well as a starter for a season or two in Korea, he\u2019d be better positioned to explore MLB opportunities down the line.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The SSG Landers of the Korea Baseball Organization announced this evening that they\u2019ve signed left-hander\u00a0Anthony Veneziano. The KHG…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":420930,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[435],"tags":[32246,49,48,176396,462,82],"class_list":{"0":"post-420929","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-mlb","8":"tag-anthony-veneziano","9":"tag-ca","10":"tag-canada","11":"tag-drew-verhagen","12":"tag-mlb","13":"tag-sports"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/420929","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=420929"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/420929\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/420930"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=420929"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=420929"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=420929"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}