2024-03-01 11:29:32
The new season is about to start, and the Taiwan Steel Eagles once again strengthened their strength by recruiting Bradin Hagens, the former patron saint of Lotte Peach Monkeys, to join the team, becoming the sixth foreign player of the Taiwan Steel Eagles. Taipei Iron and Steel once again combined with Kaohsiung’s local project and named it “Stamina”.
The new season is about to start, and the Taiwan Steel Eagles once again strengthened their strength by recruiting Bradin Hagens, the former patron saint of Lotte Peach Monkeys, to join the team, becoming the sixth foreign player of the Taiwan Steel Eagles. Taipei Iron and Steel once again combined with Kaohsiung’s local project and named it “Stamina”.
Taisteel officially announced that “Stamina” will return to secondary vocational schools (Photo source: Taisteel Eagle FB fan page)
Following Nick Margevicius, the Taipei Iron and Steel Eagle once again named the foreign general after the local place name in Kaohsiung. This time the place name was “Stamina”. “Houjin” is located in Nanzi District, Kaohsiung City. The name of Houjin comes from “Houjin Town”, one of Zheng Chenggong’s “Seventy-two Towns” to resist the Qing Dynasty. Many immigrants entered during the Qing Dynasty, and it was the center of Kaohsiung’s early development. One of the main street markets. Currently, after the Kaohsiung MRT Red Line is opened to traffic, there are also Houjin Stations at Jiachang Road and Haizhuan Road. The design theme of this station is “College Elegance” and the station number is R20.
Hagens named after his stamina (Source: Composite of Internet screenshots)
I believe that this player named “Stamina” is familiar to all fans. He is the former patron saint of Lotte Momozaru, Bradin Hagens, who was named “Hao Jin” in the past.
Staying power (Source: Sports Vision Photo Collection)
In fact, on January 11th of this year, Bradin Hagens, who was still called Hao Jin at the time, posted a message on his personal IG. The content was written in English: (Translation below) “I want to say goodbye to the Lotte Peach Monkey Team for the past three years. Thank You, I have entered free agency but want to officially say ‘Thank You’ to the Rakuten fans and my teammates. Even if I put on a different jersey, I still hope to see you all in the future.”
Thank you text from Taiwanese fans at that time (Source: Screenshot of Houjin IG)
At that time, sharp-eyed fans discovered that Bradin Hagens’ IG was tracking the Taiwan Steel Eagles. At that time, it was also reported that the Taiwan Steel Eagles were looking for foreign investors who could serve as terminators. Therefore, some people speculated that the Taiwan Steel Eagles might have a chance to recruit Hagens. However, when the team leader Liu Dongyang was interviewed by the media at the time, he stated that the team was indeed looking for a backup pitcher, but had not contacted Hagens.
A while after Hagens posted the Thank You post, the Taiwan Steel Eagles also announced two American foreign pitchers, namely Nick Margevicius and Reymin Guduan, two left-handers. As the spring training warm-up games begin, everyone seems to think that Taipei Steel will choose three of the four foreign investors it has already signed as candidates for the start of the new season.
Another foreign investor named Hama Star named after a place (Source: Taisteel Eagle FB Fan Special)
However, less than a month before the new season on 3/1, the Taiwan Steel Eagles once again announced the signing of a new foreign investment, and the candidate was Bradin Hagens, who had been discussed before, and the Chinese name once again used the local place name of Kaohsiung. “Stamina” as the Chinese translation not only stirred up a new wave of topics, but also allowed fans to see that the Taipei Eagles Football Club is very active in integrating with the local area and becoming a part of the people’s life in Kaohsiung.
Stamina once entered the major leagues with the Arizona Diamondbacks in 2014, but he only pitched in 2 games that year, allowing 1 run in 2.2 innings. He has not been in the major leagues since. From 2016 to 2017, Houjin joined the Hiroshima Carp of the Nippon Professional Baseball League. At that time, he mainly served as a relief pitcher. In 2016, he played 50 games and scored 7 wins, 5 losses, 19 relief successes, and an ERA of 2.92. After leaving Japan, he traveled around the professional baseball leagues in the United States, Mexico, Puerto Rico and other countries, becoming a standard baseball rogue.
The staying power of carp once in Hiroshima
In 2021, he joined the Lotte Monkeys and played in 53 games, scoring 6 wins, 4 losses, 10 relievers, 9 saves, and an ERA of 2.79. The following year, he was officially appointed as the patron saint of Rakuten Momomon, and performed very well. He played 59 games throughout the year, scoring 5 wins, 2 losses, 4 relays, and 36 saves. This year, he showed his full potential. In terms of suppression power, the ERA was only 1.44, and the WHIP was only 1.03. He also won the Chinese Professional Baseball’s Rescue King award that year.
The stamina that once won the secondary vocational rescue king (Source: Sports Vision Photo Collection)
However, 2023 is a stalling year for Stamina. Perhaps due to the large number of games played in the previous two years, Stamina’s suppression power in 2023 is not as good as before. Not only is the batting average high and the strikeout power reduced, but the BB/9 of 3.6 is also after coming to Taiwan. A new high. Although he scored 13 successful saves, his ERA was also an unsatisfactory 3.26. Therefore, in addition to being demoted to the second team at the end of the season, he was even removed from the position of guardian in the post-season challenge and championship. Therefore, after the end of the season, the potential was not retained by Lotte, but was once again recruited by the Taiwan Steel Eagles, a new professional baseball team, on 3/1.
According to media reports, after staying with the Taiwan Steel Eagle, he may take on a different role than in the past. It also means that after playing the role of reliever for most of the past three years, his position may be transformed into a starting pitcher. In the past, Houjin only started 4 games in the Chinese Professional Baseball League, with a record of 1 win and 1 loss. He pitched a total of 22.1 innings, lost 11 earned runs, and had a high ERA of 4.43.
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