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KBO’s SSG Landers Sign Sam Gaviglio

By Steve Adams | June 4, 2021 at 7:17pm CDT

The SSG Landers of the Korea Baseball Organization have signed former Mariners, Blue Jays and Royals right-hander Sam Gaviglio for the remainder of the season, the team announced (hat tip: Jee-ho Yoo of South Korea’s Yonhap News Agency, on Twitter). The KVA Sports client was on a minor league deal with the Rangers, who have announced the sale of his contract to the Landers. Gaviglio will earn a $246K salary in addition to a $100K signing bonus, per Yoo.

Gaviglio, 31, had tossed 26 1/3 innings in Triple-A Round Rock while awaiting a big league opportunity in Texas, but he’ll now take a guaranteed six-figure payday for a bit more than a half season’s work to close out the 2021 campaign. The move overseas also serves as something of an audition for him; if he throws well with the Landers, he could very well earn an offer to return in 2022 or generate interest elsewhere in the KBO or Japan’s Nippon Professional Baseball. A strong performance could also earn him another look back with a big league club.

A fifth-rounder by the Cardinals back in 2011, Gaviglio made his MLB debut with the 2017 Mariners. He spent parts of the next four seasons in the big leagues, tallying a combined total of 296 2/3 innings and pitching to a 4.88 ERA with a 19.1 percent strikeout rate and a 7.2 percent walk rate.

Gaviglio has worked as both a starter and a reliever in the Majors, but he appears ticketed for the Landers’ rotation. Yoo notes that he’ll be taking the roster spot of right-hander Artie Lewicki, who started four games for the Landers before a pectoral injury sidelined him for the foreseeable future.

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4 Comments

  1. Texas Outlaw

    4 years ago

    Id have taken that deal too!

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  2. Peart of the game

    4 years ago

    Gaviglio makes more sense to me than Lewicki ever did.

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    • Peart of the game

      4 years ago

      That said, I would have tried to acquire one of Jose De Paula or Teddy Stankiewicz instead.

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  3. bluejays92

    4 years ago

    Good for him, I wish him the best. I enjoyed his time with the Jays. Back in 2019 he really looked like he was breaking out as a pitcher, but it fell apart late in May.

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