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Wes Benjamin Signs With KBO’s KT Wiz

By Anthony Franco | May 18, 2022 at 10:51am CDT

Wes Benjamin has signed with the KT Wiz of the Korea Baseball Organization, according to reports out of South Korea. He’ll make $331K in salary for the prorated portion of the season and is expected to report to the team early next month.

Benjamin, 28, had been in the White Sox organization after signing a minor league deal in February. The left-hander had started seven games with Triple-A Charlotte, posting a 3.82 ERA with a solid 24.6% strikeout rate across 30 2/3 innings. That seemed to make him a viable rotation depth candidate for a ChiSox club that hasn’t gotten much from back-end starters Vince Velasquez and Dallas Keuchel. It doesn’t appear Benjamin was on the verge of a big league call, though, and the Sox granted him his release to pursue this opportunity in Asia.

While Benjamin didn’t make it to the majors with Chicago, he appeared at the game’s highest level in each of the previous two seasons. Suiting up with the Rangers — the team that selected him out of the University of Kansas back in 2014 — he made 21 appearances from 2020-21. Benjamin tossed 45 frames of 6.80 ERA ball as a swing option in Texas.

KBO teams are capped to three foreign-born players on the active roster. In order to accommodate Benjamin’s addition, the Wiz had to part ways with a foreign player. They released Venezuela native William Cuevas, ending his three-plus year run in Suwon. Cuevas posted a 3.89 ERA in 486 1/3 frames with the Wiz, but he’s only made two starts this year because of an elbow injury (h/t to Jeeho Yoo of Yonhap News). The right-hander pitched in the majors with the Red Sox and Tigers between 2016-18.

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  1. MLB Top 100 Commenter

    3 years ago

    A Benjamin for a Wiz

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  2. Cosmo2

    3 years ago

    You want a “fair” playoffs schedule where half the league gets in but it totally makes sense? Check out Korea. Would never be acceptable to MLB though. Half the teams only play half a season, including the team with the best record.

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  3. baseballdadof4

    3 years ago

    He’s got two first names? (Ricky Bobby reference) 1 year I had a fantasy baseball team and all the players on the team had 2 first names. Finished dead last but it was a good time! Had Cliff Lee, Shelley Duncan and others

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