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New SSG Landers pitcher Pedro Avila poses wearing his new Korean club’s cap \/ Courtesy of SSG Landers<\/p>\n
The SSG Landers announced their signing of former big league pitcher Pedro Avila on Wednesday.<\/p>\n
Avila, 29, will make $380,000 in salary for the rest of this Korea Baseball Organization (KBO) season, and earn another $200,000 in incentives.<\/p>\n
The Venezuelan right-hander appeared in 72 games for the San Diego Padres and Cleveland Guardians in Major League Baseball from 2019 to 2024. He went 8-4 with a 3.51 ERA, while recording 151 strikeouts against 67 walks in 146 1\/3 innings.<\/p>\n
Avila then pitched for the Tokyo Yakult Swallows in Nippon Professional Baseball in 2025. He had a 7-8 record with a 4.04 ERA in the top Japanese league.<\/p>\n
Avila has spent the 2026 season with Cleveland’s Triple-A affiliate, the Columbus Clippers, going 3-7 with a 7.50 ERA in 15 outings, including 13 starts.<\/p>\n
Across four Triple-A seasons, Avila made 53 starts and 24 relief appearances, with a 12-15 record, a 6.05 ERA and 245 strikeouts in 250 innings.<\/p>\n
According to the Landers, Avila can touch 156 kilometers per hour with his four-seam fastball and his arsenal also includes cutter, changeup, curveball and splitter.<\/p>\n
The Landers added that Avila is a perfect fit to join their rotation given his experience and his ability to eat up innings.<\/p>\n
Avila is replacing Anthony Veneziano, who was released Saturday after going 2-5 with a 6.10 ERA in 16 starts in his first KBO season.<\/p>\n
The Landers had signed Veneziano in January after terminating a deal with their initial target, Drew VerHagen, over a failed physical.<\/p>\n
However, Veneziano never found his footing in Korea. The left-hander surrendered at least a run in 15 of his 16 outings. He posted a 7.23 ERA in four April starts and then had a 7.31 ERA in five games in June.<\/p>\n
Through Tuesday’s action, the Landers had the worst team ERA at 5.87. Their pitchers have allowed the most home runs (93) and the most walks (392) in the KBO.<\/p>\n
Their other foreign pitchers have struggled this year.<\/p>\n
Mitch White, following a successful 2025 campaign, made just six appearances this year due to a shoulder injury and carried a 4.11 ERA before getting released last month. His short-term replacement, Ginjiro Hiramoto, went 0-3 with a 9.56 ERA in four outings, prompting the Landers to cut him in early June.<\/p>\n
Thomas Hatch, who joined the rotation in mid-June, is 1-2 with a 7.08 ERA in four starts so far.<\/p>\n
The Landers’ Asian quota pitcher, Shota Takeda of Japan, has a 1-7 record and a 7.43 ERA after 15 games.<\/p>\n
The Landers suffered a franchise-worst 13-game losing streak earlier this year and snapped a nine-game slide on Tuesday. They are in ninth place in the 10-team league at 31-50-3 (wins-losses-ties).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"New SSG Landers pitcher Pedro Avila poses wearing his new Korean club’s cap \/ Courtesy of SSG Landers…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":788032,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[435],"tags":[49,48,462,82],"class_list":["post-788031","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-mlb","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-mlb","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/788031","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=788031"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/788031\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/788032"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=788031"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=788031"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=788031"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}