Roger Bernardina (39), who contributed to the KIA Tigers’ 2017 season championship, is more likely to appear at the upcoming 2023 World Baseball Classic (WBC).

The Royal Netherlands Baseball Softball Association (KNBSB) announced on its official SNS on the 12th (Korean time) that “Bernardina has been named to the WBC reserve roster.”

The Dutch national team, led by Hansley Mullen, hitting coach of the Colorado Rockies in the US Major League, released the names of 14 players included in the WBC preliminary 50-man list on the 11th. 

The roster included names such as Xander Bogarts, Kenley Jansen, Jonathan Scoop, and Chadwick Tromp. In addition, the names of active major leaguers such as Josh Palacios (Pittsburgh) and Rich Palacios (Cleveland), Jurickson Profar, Didi Gregorius, and Andrelton Simmons could be confirmed. However, it is still unknown when they will join the final roster.

And the association unveiled the 15th player that followed that day, and the main character was Bernardina. Bernardina played for the KIA Tigers in the KBO League from 2017 to 2018, imprinting her name on Korean baseball fans.

As a hota, he showed his presence by exploding his power on the Korean stage. In the 2017 season, which was his debut season, he had a batting average of 0.320, 27 homers, 111 RBIs and 32 stolen bases. After leading the KIA to win the regular league, he recorded a batting average of 0.526 (10 hits in 19 at-bats), 1 home run and 7 RBIs in the subsequent Korean Series, 카지노.leading KIA to its 11th Korean Series championship by wielding a hard hit that was comparable to that of the series MVP.

In the following 2018 season, he left Korea with a batting average of 0.310, 20 home runs, 70 RBIs and 32 stolen bases, but failed to renew the contract and left Korea. Since then, he has played in independent baseball in Japan, Taiwan, and Mexico, and continues his career with the Dutch league Hongkbal Hope de Clare and Curacao Neptune. According to the association, he is currently digesting the Nicaraguan Winter League.

The association introduced him as “the 14th player with experience in the big leagues. Bernardina played 548 games in the major leagues, the world’s highest level, with Washington Nationals, Philadelphia Phillies, Cincinnati Reds, and LA Dodgers.”

“Bernardina, who participated in the 2013 WBC and reached the semifinals, was unable to play in the 2017 WBC because her team, KIA, did not release him,” he said. “Experienced Bernardina will play an important role in the national team.” .

The Netherlands are in Group A along with Chinese Taipei, Cuba, Italy and Panama. If the Netherlands make it through the group stage, there is a possibility that they will meet South Korea in Group B in the knockout tournament stage in the quarterfinals, depending on the case.