Like Cushing and Ryu Hyun-jin, "Hanwha Firefighter" minor wins, "I'm a good ball control pitcher and a strike-throwing pitcher."

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The minor league's most wins have joined the Hanwha Eagles. Will Jack Cushing (30) be able to erase the gap of Owen White (27), who has left due to injury, and move on to his bigger dream.

White, who will wear Hanwha's uniform with Wilkel Hernandez, was highly expected to be guaranteed a first-year high of $1 million (about 1.51 billion won), and in the exhibition game, he allowed five runs in 14 ⅓ innings in three games, recorded an ERA of 3.14 and struck out 16 to inflate expectations.

In fact, he suffered a thigh injury in the defense process from the first game of the season. As a result of the examination, he was diagnosed with a left hamstring muscle rupture. Hanwha immediately began recruiting temporary foreign pitchers on the opinion that it would require more than six weeks of rehabilitation.

Cushing also moved quickly, got on a plane to Korea, arrived at Jamsil Stadium early on the 5th, and even finished greeting the team.

"I don't think there's any better news for the team to join me like this even though it's not a short time for the plane," Hanwha manager Kim Kyung-moon (68) told reporters ahead of the Doosan Bears match on the 5th, smiling, "It's nice to meet the players with great enthusiasm."

Hanwha has a starting rotation of Wilkel Hernandez and White, Ryu Hyun-jin and Moon Dong-ju and Wang Yancheng, but only Wang Yancheng and Ryu Hyun-jin are playing their roles so far. Although it is a contract with a fixed period of six weeks, the expectations for Cushing are different.

Cushing is a pitcher who sprays fastball in the early 150km/h range and played in 38 games in the minor league (PCL) last year and became a multi-winner with 11 wins and 2 losses in six appearances as a starter. Having been invited to the Major League spring camp this season, he is now a member of Hanwha and is preparing to take the mound against the KIA Tigers this weekend.

Cushing said, "Baseball is the same sport all over the world and it's a great honor to come to a different country. I came all of a sudden, and I'm so honored and I'll do my best," he said after receiving a call from Hanwha, adding, "I was very happy because it was a good experience. I want to get on the mound as soon as possible and throw it as soon as possible," he said.

He introduced himself as a pitcher who pitches aggressively based on his sharp control. Cushing said, "I think my control is a good pitcher. "I'm a style that reduces the number of pitches as soon as possible, whether I watch the game quickly and get a hit or block it well," he said.

The same is true of what I want to show. "I want to remain a strike-throwing pitcher," Cushing said. "Because you have to throw a strike to get an out count," he said.

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