All three foreigners at KT are excluded from the suspension. Velazquez, Colervin, Wisdom, and Cardinez also failed to renew their contracts

Nov 30, 2025

All three foreigners at KT are excluded from the suspension. Velazquez, Colervin, Wisdom, and Cardinez also failed to renew their contracts
A game between the Doosan Bears and the KIA Tigers at Jamsil Stadium on the 3rd. Doosan's Kim Jae-hwan is training. Jamsil = Reporter Park Jae-man pjm@sportschosun.com /2025.06.03/



All three foreigners at KT are excluded from the suspension. Velazquez, Colervin, Wisdom, and Cardinez also failed to renew their contracts
A game between the LG Twins and the Doosan Bears at Jamsil Stadium on the 22nd. Doosan Bears' Hong Gun-hee is pitching hard. Jamsil = Reporter Park Jae-man pjm@sportschosun.com /2025.06.22/
All three foreigners at KT are excluded from the suspension. Velazquez, Colervin, Wisdom, and Cardinez also failed to renew their contracts
KT and LG match held at KT Wiz Park in Suwon on the 16th. KT Heyesus, who is pitching as a starter. Suwon = Song Jeong-heon Reporter's songs@sportschosun.com/2025.09.16/
KBO announced the list of players on hold for 2026 on the 30th.

A total of 597 players were registered in the 2025 KBO League, and a total of 29 players, including free agents, voluntary termination, military holding players, FA non-contracted players, and withheld players, were excluded during the regular season, and the final 568 players were announced as withheld players in 2026.

By club, SSG and Kiwoom had the largest number of 61, followed by LG and Lotte with 59, NC and Doosan with 58, KIA with 56, Hanwha, Samsung and KT with 52.




KT excluded all three foreign players from the list of players, including foreign pitchers Emanuel de Heysus and Patrick Murphy (3-3-2 hold ERA 3.12), and outfielder Andrew Stevenson (0.262 batting average, 3 home runs, 14 RBIs). This means that we will select all three new members.

Heyesus moved to KT with 13 wins and 11 losses and a 3.68 ERA at Kiwoom in 2024, but failed to renew his contract with 9 wins, 9 losses and 1 hold average of 3.96 this season.

Six foreign pitchers, including NC's Logan Allen (7-12, ERA 4.53) and Lotte's Vince Velasquez (1-4, ERA 8.23), KIA's Patrick Wisdom (0.236, 35 home runs and 85 RBIs), Doosan's Cole Irvin (8-12, ERA 4.48), Kiwoom's Christopher Mercedes (3-3, ERA 4.47), and Ruben Cadines (batting 0.253, 7 home runs and 42 RBIs), were also excluded from the list of pending players, allowing them to freely sign with any team in Korea.




All three foreigners at KT are excluded from the suspension. Velazquez, Colervin, Wisdom, and Cardinez also failed to renew their contracts
A game between the LG Twins and the Doosan Bears at Jamsil Stadium on the 30th. Doosan's Colerbin is pitching hard. Jamsil = Reporter Park Jae-man pjm@sportschosun.com /2025.09.30/
All three foreigners at KT are excluded from the suspension. Velazquez, Colervin, Wisdom, and Cardinez also failed to renew their contracts
Lotte and SSG match held at Sajik Stadium in Busan on the 13th. Lotte starter Velazquez pitching in the top of the first inning. Busan = Song Jeong-heon Reporter's songs@sportschosun.com/2025.09.13/
All three foreigners at KT are excluded from the suspension. Velazquez, Colervin, Wisdom, and Cardinez also failed to renew their contracts
In the second wild card game between NC and Samsung at Daegu Samsung Lions Park on the 7th, NC Logan roars after striking out Samsung Kim Young-woong in the bottom of the third inning. Daegu=Reporter Huh Sang-wook's wook@sportschosun.com/2025.10.07/
There were no players who were very shocked because the clubs had already announced the players to be excluded from the suspension in advance.

As Doosan has already said, first of all, Kim Jae-hwan was excluded from the list of pending players according to the provisions put in the FA contract four years ago due to the failure of the renewal negotiations, and Hong Gun-hee also signed a 2+2 year contract, but gave up the remaining 2 years and 1.5 billion won contract and chose the opt-out to come back to the market.

Samsung sorted out the largest number of people except for 12 players, Oh Seung-hwan, Park Byung-ho, and Lim Chang-min, and KT also excluded 10 players. SSG removed only one Kim Gun-woong from the list of players on hold.




◇ List of players with 10 clubs excluded

Samsung (12) = Kim Dae-woo Song Eun-beom Oh Seung-hwan Lee Sang-min Lim Chang-min Choi Sung-hoon (pitcher) Kim Min-soo (catcher) Kang Min-gyu Park Byung-ho Ahn Ju-hyung (outfielder) Kim Tae-geun (outfielder)

KT (10 players) = Kim Joo-wan, Sung Jae-hun, Lee Sun-woo, Lee Tae-gyu, Patrick Heyesus (pitcher) Oh Jae-il (infielder) Kim Gun-hyung, Song Min-seop, Stevenson (outfielder)

Doosan (6) = Ko Hyo-joon Lee Seung-jin Hong Gun-hee Colerbin (pitcher hereinafter), Kang Hyun-gu and Kim Jae-hwan (outfielder hereinafter)

Lotte (6) = Shim Jae-min Kim Do-gyu Jin Hae-soo's recruitment rate Velazquez (hereinafter pitcher) Baekdu Mountain (catcher)

Kiwoom (5 players) = Mercedes (pitcher) Lee Won-seok (infielder) Kim Dong-yeop, Bae Sang-kwon, Cardinez (outfielder)

KIA (4 players) = Kim Seung-hyun Park Jun-pyo (pitcher above) Seo Geon-chang Wizdom (infielder above)

Hanwha (4 players) = Yoon Dae-kyung Jang Min-jae Jang Si-hwan (pitcher) Kim In-hwan (infielder)

LG (3) = Shim Chang-min (pitcher) Ahn Ik-hoon (outfielder) Choi Seung-min (outfielder)

NC (3 players) = Seo Eui-tae, Park Joo-hyun, Logan (hereinafter pitcher)

SSG (1) = Kim Gun-woong (Infielders)



This article was translated by Naver AI translator.