You said 45 ML homers.. Full $1 million guaranteed → Doosan Cave is virtually the lowest contributor

May 28, 2025

You said 45 ML homers.. Full 1 million guaranteed → Doosan Cave is virtually the lowest contributor
A game between SSG and Doosan at Jamsil Baseball Stadium on the 20th, Doosan manager Lee Seung-yeop talks with Cave. Jamsil= Reporter's wook@sportschosun.com/2025.05.20/



You said 45 ML homers.. Full 1 million guaranteed → Doosan Cave is virtually the lowest contributor
Dusan-Kium match held at Gocheok Sky Dome in Seoul on the 24th. Kim Jae-hwan, with one out and runners on the first and second bases, is being celebrated with Yang Seok-hwan and Cave after hitting a three-run shot in the top of the seventh inning. Gocheok = Reporter Jung Jae-geun cjg@sportschosun.com /2025.4.24/
Doosan Bears' new foreign hitter Jake Cave (32) is showing a disappointing performance compared to 'body value'. One of the reasons why Doosan fell to ninth place is the sluggishness of foreign hitters.

Doosan guaranteed Cave 1 million dollars (about 1.4 billion won) in full. So far, it is coldly below expectation. Cave played in 45 games and played 202 at-bats until the 28th. He has a batting average of 0.293 / an on-base plus slugging percentage of 0.342 / an on-base plus slugging percentage of 0.744. He has three homers and 23 RBIs.

Cave is a right fielder and a foreign hitter, a position that must show the strongest offense in the team. If it is such an offensive indicator, it is regrettable even if it is a domestic batter.




Cave is only eighth in the OPS among right fielders with more than 100 at-bats in the 2025 season. It is lower than Ahn Hyun-min (KT), Jin-young (Hanwha), Son Ah-seop (NC), and Yoon Dong-hee (Lotte).

Not to mention the comparison between foreign players. Based on StatIZ, a statistical site, the WAR (contribution to victory over substitute players) is 1.21. He is seventh among foreign hitters. The players below Cave are Davison (NC), Eredia (SSG), who is absent due to injury, and Puig (Kium), who has been kicked out, and Cardinez (Kium), who is extremely sluggish. Cardinez then received $600,000 (about W800 million). There is a big difference in ransom from Cave.

The bigger problem is that such a cave shows the top offensive power within Doosan.




Yang Eui-ji and Jung Soo-bin are the only players in Doosan who have a higher WAR than Cave. Doosan put Jung Soo-bin Cave Yang Eui-ji in the top batting order to maximize its offense somehow. Jung Soo-bin Cave has drawn a picture of getting on base and Yang Eui-ji solving it, but it is common to get cut off in front of Yang Eui-ji. Behind Yang Eui-ji, Yang Seok-hwan and Kim Jae-hwan should solve it, but these two are slumping this season.

You said 45 ML homers.. Full 1 million guaranteed → Doosan Cave is virtually the lowest contributor
The game between Lotte and Doosan at Jamsil Baseball Stadium on the 27th, and Doosan Cave, with two outs and runners on the first and third bases, are happy to hit an RBI timely hit in the bottom of the seventh inning. Jamsil= Reporter's wook@sportschosun.com/2025.04.27/
You said 45 ML homers.. Full 1 million guaranteed → Doosan Cave is virtually the lowest contributor
A game between Doosan and KIA at Gwangju KIA Champions Field on the 18th, and Cave with one out and one base in the top of the seventh inning is running with a hit. Gwangju = Reporter's book@sportschosun.com/2025.05.18/
Doosan is struggling with a serious low score. On the 27th, the match against Suwon KT was dragged to perfection until the 6th inning. He has scored only one point in four of the last six games.

Doosan is moving further away from eighth place as it remains in ninth place with 21 wins, 3 draws and 29 losses. It has 4.5 games against fifth-ranked Samsung.




Cave boasts 45 homers in 523 games in seven major league seasons. He played in 123 games in the big league last year and hit seven home runs. In the KBO League, he also hit hard with a monthly batting average of 0.400 in April. Doosan can also go up only when Cave survives.

Reporter Han Dong-hoon dhhan@sportschosun.com



This article was translated by Naver AI translator.