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Warwick Saupold, Chad Bell Sign With KBO’s Hanwha Eagles

By Steve Adams | November 14, 2018 at 9:19pm CDT

The Hanwha Eagles of the Korea Baseball Organization announced that they’ve signed right-hander Warwick Saupold and left-hander Chad Bell to one-year contracts (hat tip: Dan Kurtz of MyKBO.net, on Twitter). Saupold will earn a total of $1MM — $300K signing bonus and $700K salary — while Bell will receive a $200K signing bonus and a $400K salary. As Kurtz further notes, the KBO recently amended some rules preventing first-year foreign players from signing for more than a total of $1MM. Saupold is repped by the Ballplayers Agency, while Bell is a client of the Bledsoe Agency.

Saupold, 29 in January, has spent parts of the past three seasons with the Tigers. The Australian-born righty has compiled 106 2/3 innings at the big league level to this point in his career, working to a 4.98 earned run average with 70 strikeouts against 46 walks out of the Detroit bullpen. His work in the minors has been considerably more impressive, as he sports a 3.39 ERA with 7.0 K/9 against 3.1 BB/9 in 188 2/3 frames with the Tigers’ top affiliate. He’s been with the Tigers organization since the age of 22, and he spent the two seasons prior to that pitching for his hometown Perth Heat of the Australian Baseball League.

Bell, 30 in February, was Saupold’s teammate with Detroit from 2017-18, though he finished out the ’18 campaign as a member of the Braves organization after being claimed off waivers in mid-May. He’s been knocked around for a 7.11 ERA in 69 2/3 MLB innings but managed a more palatable 4.27 ERA with 7.7 K/9 against 3.6 BB/9 in 270 Triple-A innings.

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  1. Jacob Sizemore

    4 years ago

    Always rooted for Saupold. Mainly because I am a Tiger’s fan, but also with a name like that, how can you not?

    Reply
    • b-rar

      4 years ago

      > with a name like that, how can you not

      Not rooting for a guy named Warwick is the easiest thing I’ve ever done.

      Reply
  2. andrew farelli

    4 years ago

    Rooting for Bell, and hope to receive bell stuffed peppers.

    Reply
    • JDGoat

      4 years ago

      Delicious

      Reply
  3. vannzee

    4 years ago

    Saupold’s time stateside may be most memorable for getting in a bar fight with members of the Pirates AAA team vs a heckler in Toledo.

    Reply
    • aussiegiants53

      4 years ago

      Haha more info??

      Reply
  4. stevewpants

    4 years ago

    Woooo content for me to click on!!!

    Reply
  5. vtadave

    4 years ago

    Warwick was great in the Leprechaun movies.

    Reply
  6. Phillies2017

    4 years ago

    Is it $1m each or total? I’m a bit confused as to the new rule.

    Reply
  7. silverbackjack

    4 years ago

    worst baseball name ever

    Reply
  8. al080991

    4 years ago

    Dude Gaylord Perry come on

    Reply
  9. al080991

    4 years ago

    Johnny Dickshot

    Reply
  10. al080991

    4 years ago

    Dick pole

    Reply
  11. al080991

    4 years ago

    Boot Bonser

    Reply
  12. al080991

    4 years ago

    Dick padden

    Reply
  13. al080991

    4 years ago

    Ed Head

    Reply
  14. al080991

    4 years ago

    Rusty kunts

    Reply
  15. al080991

    4 years ago

    Pickles Dilhoeffer

    Reply
  16. al080991

    4 years ago

    Pete LeCock

    Reply
    • bobtillman

      4 years ago

      …you get a cookie if you remember who his “somewhat” famous father was……

      Reply
  17. al080991

    4 years ago

    Come on now worst ever?

    Reply
    • silverbackjack

      4 years ago

      the names being listed are fantastic and hilarious names, this dudes name is just an ugly sounding name to me is all. The best sounding baseball name ever is Nick swisher it just rolls of smoothly.

      Reply
  18. al080991

    4 years ago

    I’ve got more

    Reply
  19. al080991

    4 years ago

    This site just won’t let you say some weird names

    Reply
  20. aussiegiants53

    4 years ago

    Well bugger!! Hendricks the only Aussie big leaguer for now

    Reply
  21. andrew farelli

    4 years ago

    Also, I’m pretty sure that the 1 million cap on new players going to the KBO never happened as the KBOPA never agreed to the terms which was not good for domestic KBO players either.

    Reply

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