New Samsung Lions pitcher Matt Manning poses in entrance of the crew’s brand at Daegu Samsung Lions Park within the southeastern metropolis of Daegu, Monday, on this photograph offered by the Lions. Yonhap
The Samsung Lions added two new foreign-born pitchers to their workers on Monday, signing American right-hander Matt Manning and Japanese right-hander Yura Miyaji.
The Lions mentioned Manning, 27, agreed to a one-year deal price $1 million. He has 50 main league video games below his belt, all of them in begins for the Detroit Tigers from 2021 to 2024. A primary-round decide on the 2016 draft, Manning has a profession 11-15 file with a 4.43 ERA over 254 innings. He has 178 strikeouts in opposition to 85 walks.
Manning spent your complete 2025 season in Triple-A, first for the Tigers and later for the Philadelphia Phillies following a July commerce. In 33 outings mixed, together with six begins, Manning went 2-3 with a 6.47 ERA in 55 2/3 innings, whereas recording 60 strikeouts and 44 walks.
The Lions mentioned Manning averages 152 kph together with his four-seam fastball, and mixes it with sweeper, curveball, splitter and slider.
Miyaji is the Lions’ Asian quota participant for 2026 and can make $100,000 in wage with one other $50,000 up for grabs in incentives.
Beginning within the 2026 season, the KBO will permit golf equipment to signal an additional foreign-born participant, both from an Asian nation or Australia, along with their ordinary three gamers from abroad.
Miyaji spent the 2025 season with the Kufu Hayate Ventures Shizuoka within the minor league of Nippon Skilled Baseball (NPB). They’re one in every of two golf equipment with no affiliation within the prime NPB competitors.
Miyaji has not pitched in NPB, having as a substitute labored his manner up from novice baseball to unbiased league to the NPB minors.
Miyaji had a 0-2 file with a 2.88 ERA in 24 video games protecting 25 innings in 2025. He struck out 31 batters whereas strolling 11, utilizing a four-pitch mixture of four-seam fastball, splitter, slider and curveball. The Lions mentioned Miyaji can contact 158 kph together with his fastball.
The Lions, with Manning and the returning ace Ariel Jurado on the prime of the beginning rotation, mentioned they anticipate Miyaji to strengthen their bullpen.
