Reporter Cai Houxuan / full report
▲ Former CITIC Brothers pitcher Xiang Moli has not been re-signed by Korea’s SSG Landers. (Data map/photographed by reporter Liu Yanchi)
Former CITIC brother Shawn Morimando was targeted by South Korean SSG Landers this season and moved to Korea. Finally, the team successfully defeated Peizheng Heroes in the Korean competition and won the Korean championship. However, on the 8th, the SSG Landers However, announced that it will not renew the contract with the three foreign generals, including Xiang Moli. If Xiang Moli goes back to middle school next year, he is also attracting attention from the outside world. The Brothers Club stated that “Xiang Moli has always been on the team’s assessment list.”
29-year-old Xiang Moli will come to Taiwan to join CITIC Brothers in the second half of 2021. He started 2 games in 4 games, 0 wins, 2 losses and 1 save. , resigned with his brother this year, played in 15 games and started 14, with 7 wins and 5 losses, and a 2.56 ERA.
After Xiang Moli moved to Korea, he had 7 wins and 1 loss in 12 starts in SSG, with a 1.67 ERA and 67 strikeouts in 75.1 innings. However, in the Korean competition against Heroes, the team of Support dropped 1 run in 1.2 innings. in the first game. Lost, she started game four but dropped by 6 runs in just 2.1 innings and took the loss again. The Landers finally defeated the Heroes 4:2 in the Korea Series.
However, the SSG landers announced earlier on the 8th that they would not renew their contracts with the current three foreign generals. Talking about the magical power of the SSG landers, the director general of the SSG landers frankly said that the main reason is that the elephant magic power does not have the ball power to suppress the opponent, so they decided not to renew. John also revealed that 27-year-old newly signed Kirk McCarty has a similar playing style to Elephant Magic, but with greater speed of the ball and more power, which can be regarded as an upgraded version of Elephant Magic.