{"id":955924,"date":"2026-11-02T21:00:14","date_gmt":"2026-11-02T21:00:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/955924\/"},"modified":"2026-11-02T21:00:14","modified_gmt":"2026-11-02T21:00:14","slug":"si-hwan-roh-posted-for-mlb-teams-top-landing-spots-for-korean-star-in-free-agency","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/955924\/","title":{"rendered":"Si-Hwan Roh Posted for MLB Teams, Top Landing Spots for Korean Star in Free Agency"},"content":{"rendered":"

Si-Hwan Roh is heading to Major League Baseball. <\/p>\n

The 25-year-old Korean star was posted by the KBO’s Hanwha Eagles on Monday, creating a 30-day window for him to negotiate with MLB teams.<\/p>\n

But which teams might be interested in his services?<\/p>\n

Really, any team needing help at third base\u2014assuming MLB teams believe he’s good enough to stick there defensively\u2014or teams willing to utilize him as a designated hitter will likely have interest, especially in a winter that is pretty light on help at the position. Teams that miss out on what is expected to be a vibrant market for Japanese star Teruaki Sato could make sense as Roh suitors. <\/p>\n

Michael Clair<\/a> of MLB.com listed the St. Louis Cardinals, New York Yankees, Seattle Mariners and Los Angeles Angels as potential Roh suitors.<\/p>\n

The Cardinals have an extremely obvious need<\/a> at third base, making them a logical potential destination for a player like Roh. And the Korean star also appears to be on the same timeline as a Cardinals team that showed growth in 2026 but it still very much in a rebuilding process. <\/p>\n

The Yankees need to rework their offense in general and will need to replace the likely-departing Jazz Chisholm Jr. and Trent Grisham. They also already are dealing with a large payroll, so a player like Roh might ultimately be a worthwhile gamble at a lower price point than a player like Sato.<\/p>\n

The Mariners have a need at third base and a need for more power, though Roh becomes less appealing for Seattle if the team doesn’t feel like he can handle the hot corner defensively.<\/p>\n

And the Angels… could use some hope. Something to give their fans a reason to get excited as the Stan Kroenke ownership era is set to begin at some point in 2027. Roh wouldn’t move the needle like Sato, but it would be a start. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Si-Hwan Roh is heading to Major League Baseball. The 25-year-old Korean star was posted by the KBO’s Hanwha…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":955925,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[435],"tags":[49,48,462,82],"class_list":["post-955924","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\/955924","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=955924"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/955924\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/955925"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=955924"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=955924"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=955924"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}