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Drew Anderson (32, Detroit Tigers), who played in the KBO league and returned to the big league ahead of this season, showed good performance in the exhibition game.

Anderson started the Tampa Bay Rays at Fort Charlotte Sports Park in Florida on the 1st (Korea time) and pitched three innings of four hits, one walk, and three strikeouts.

Anderson threw 51 pitches on the day. The maximum speed of the fastball was 97 miles (156.1 kilometers).

It was Anderson's second exhibition game. Anderson pitched two scoreless innings as his second pitcher against the Minnesota Twins on the 24th of last month. And on this day, he pitched scoreless pitching again, continuing his scoreless streak for two consecutive games.

As soon as Anderson took the mound in the bottom of the first inning with his team leading 1-0, he handled leadoff hitter Chandler Simpson with a straight hit to first base. Jonathan Aranda then struck out Johnny DeLuca with a foul tipHe even led the pitcher to a ground ball in front of the pitcher and neatly deleted the inning with a three-out error.

Anderson then threw well in the bottom of the second inning with two more runs in the top of the second inning. His crisis management ability to score no runs in the bases-loaded situation was outstanding. Anderson hit leadoff hitter Cedric Mullins on a flyout to shortstop in the bottom of the second inning, drawing four consecutive hitters. However, Anderson gave up a heavy hit against the next batter, Ryan Billade. Was he shaken for a while when he gave up his first hit. He allowed the next batter, Jake Fraley, to walk for the seventh time, putting him on the verge of losing points on the first and second bases.

The next batter is Taylor Walls. Anderson won. He threw a changeup for the fourth pitch at the ball count of 1-2, inducing a swing and miss strikeout. 2 outs. But he gave up an infield single to shortstop to Rich Palacios, causing a bases-loaded crisis. But that was it. Anderson struck Tatum Levins with a straight hit to third base, erasing another inning without allowing a run.

In the third inning, his crisis management ability also shone. Anderson is on the verge of first and second bases with no outs, allowing a hit to leadoff hitter Chandler Simpson and a hit to the right to follow-up Johnny DeLuca. However, Jonathan Aranda, who entered the next at-bat, quickly filled two out-counts by inducing a double play leading to a "second baseman-strike-first baseman." a continuous crisis with two outs and a third base. Anderson threw a low change-up of his sixth pitch after a full count against Mullins, striking out swinging.

That was the end of Anderson's pitching on the day. Detroit put Connor Pilkington on the mound instead of Anderson in the fourth inning. In the end, as Detroit won 12-3, Anderson became the winning pitcher.

Anderson has a 0.00 ERA with one win and no loss in two exhibition games this year. While playing a total of five innings, he has five hits, one walk, six strikeouts, a batting average of 0.263, and a 1.20 on-base allowance per inning (WHIP).

Meanwhile, Anderson signed a relationship with the KBO League in 2024. At that time, it was Anderson who SSG Landers recruited Robert Duggar instead of releasing him in April at the beginning of the season.

Anderson from Nevada, USA, made his big league debut in August 2017 after being drafted by the Philadelphia Phillies in the 2012 MLB Rookie Draft (21st round). After that, he went through the Chicago White Sox and Texas Rangers and played on the U.S. stage until 2021.

I also experienced the Japanese stage. In the 2022 and 2023 seasons, he played for the Nippon Professional Baseball (NPB) Hiroshima Toyokaf. At that time, he pitched in 34 games (19 starts) in the first division for two seasons and had a record of 7 wins, 5 losses and an ERA of 3.05. Then, he returned to Detroit before the 2024 season and joined the Asian stage again after being selected by SSG.

Anderson, who joined during the pennant race, went 11-3 with a 3.89 ERA in 24 appearances in the 2024 season. In a total of 115 ⅔ innings, he recorded 98 hits (11 home runs) and 55 runs (50 earned) with 158 strikeouts on 53 walks. The winning rate is 0.786. Based on his good performance, Anderson also joined SSG in the 2025 season. At that time, he renewed his contract for a total of $1.2 million (1.15 million annual salary, 50,000 options).

And last year, Anderson also served as the team's pillar. He pitched in 30 games in the 2025 season, recording 12 wins, 7 losses and a 2.25 ERA. In a total of 171 ⅔ innings, SSG had 121 hits (13 home runs), 51 walks, 245 strikeouts, 53 runs (43 earned runs), and a winning percentage of 0.632 to contribute to SSG's advance into fall baseball. After the season, Anderson decided to return to the U.S. stage and said goodbye to his domestic fans. The team that reached out to him was his old team, Detroit. He left for the U.S. on the condition of up to $17 million (about 24.6 billion won) per year. Will Anderson be able to join the Major League's opening roster by showing good performance in the exhibition game.

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