LG Twins foreign pitcher Casey Kelly has been with the Twins for six years. The longest tenure among LG foreign players in history. Kelly also set a Korean Series victory record as a foreign pitcher for LG and is the only foreign pitcher to win the Korean Series.
LG is holding a spring camp in Scottsdale, Arizona, USA, and Kelly, who has a home in Scottsdale, is training by commuting to and from the camp.
“He’s feeling good so far, and his workouts are going as planned,” said Kelly, who met at camp. “I’m very happy and excited to be with our players, and the workouts are going well,” he said. .
It\'s been 6 years. When you first signed with LG, did you expect to play so far? Kelly said, “Actually, when I first signed with LG, I didn’t expect that I would be playing in the LG uniform for this long. “He feels very grateful to be able to play for a long time wearing the LG Twins uniform,” he said.
“More than anything, what feels really good is that we won the Korean Series last year. “I personally feel good, and LG Twins fans have tremendous passion and fandom, so that made me feel very good,” he laughed.
Kelly, in his 6th year, is the player who has played the longest in the KBO League among foreign players from 10 teams this season. Like Kelly, KT Cuevas has been playing since 2019, but Cuevas\' contract was terminated due to injury in the middle of the 2022 season, and he returned to KT in the middle of the 2023 season.
“I feel very proud to have become the longest-serving foreign player,” Kelly said. The KBO league is a league with a lot of changes in foreign players and a lot of player turnover. When I first came here in 2019, I never thought I would play this long. “After some time, I think that the KBO league is the league that suits me best.”
He continued, “I think my baseball career could have changed because I played in the KBO league. I always thought that the current season was my last season, and I tried to enjoy baseball as much as possible. “I think I always enjoyed it because the experience of playing baseball in a foreign country was unfamiliar to me,” he said of his secret to longevity.
Kelly played in Korea for six years and his accumulated annual salary is $8.7 million. He started at $1 million in 2019, received contracts of $1.5 million, $1.4 million, $1.5 million, and $1.8 million, and re-signed this year for $1.5 million.
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