{"id":463779,"date":"2025-12-06T14:06:11","date_gmt":"2025-12-06T14:06:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/463779\/"},"modified":"2025-12-06T14:06:11","modified_gmt":"2025-12-06T14:06:11","slug":"kbo-leagues-ssg-landers-sign-drew-verhagen","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/463779\/","title":{"rendered":"KBO League&#8217;s SSG Landers Sign Drew VerHagen"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The SSG Landers of the Korea Baseball Organization announced a one-year contract with right-hander <a href=\"https:\/\/www.baseball-reference.com\/players\/v\/verhadr01.shtml?utm_medium=linker&amp;utm_source=www.mlbtraderumors.com&amp;utm_campaign=2025-12-06_br\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Drew VerHagen<\/a> for the 2026 season.\u00a0 VerHagen will earn $800K in guaranteed money ($750K salary, $50K signing bonus) and another $100K is available to the 35-year-old righty in contract incentives.<\/p>\n<p>A veteran of eight Major League seasons, VerHagen has a 4.98 ERA over 281 2\/3 innings with the Tigers (from 2014-19) and Cardinals (2022-23), working primarily as a long reliever with a few spot starts.\u00a0 He also has a significant amount of experience pitching in Japan, as VerHagen pitched with the Nippon-Ham Fighters of Nippon Professional Baseball during both the 2020-21 seasons and then again over the last two seasons.<\/p>\n<p>Overall, VerHagen has a 3.68 ERA, 23.7% strikeout rate, and 6.65% walk rate in 283 1\/3 innings with the Fighters.\u00a0 His most recent season, however, was his least-successful in NPB.\u00a0 VerHagen delivered only a 6.08 ERA over 26 2\/3 frames with the Fighters in 2025, and spent the bulk of the season with the Fighters\u2019 minor league affiliate.<\/p>\n<p>VerHagen will now look to turn the page in a new league and a new country.\u00a0 He\u2019ll take up one of the Fighters\u2019 allotted roster spots for foreign-born pitchers, essentially replacing <a href=\"https:\/\/www.baseball-reference.com\/search\/search.fcgi?pid=anderdr02,anderdr01&amp;search=Drew+Anderson&amp;utm_medium=linker&amp;utm_source=www.mlbtraderumors.com&amp;utm_campaign=2025-12-06_br\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Drew Anderson<\/a> (who is <a href=\"https:\/\/www.mlbtraderumors.com\/2025\/12\/tigers-to-sign-drew-anderson.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">returning<\/a> to MLB on a one-year deal with Detroit).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The SSG Landers of the Korea Baseball Organization announced a one-year contract with right-hander Drew VerHagen for the&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":16182,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2302],"tags":[5,8117,2353,2352],"class_list":{"0":"post-463779","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-npb","8":"tag-baseball","9":"tag-drew-verhagen","10":"tag-nippon-professional-baseball","11":"tag-npb"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@mlb\/115673011570091856","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/463779","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=463779"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/463779\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/16182"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=463779"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=463779"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=463779"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}