Hyeon-jong Yang Might Not Be The Minnesota Twins’ After All
Hyeon-jong Yang might not be the Minnesota Twins to sign after all. Yesterday it was reported that the Twins won the bidding rights to negotiate the Korean Baseball Organization pitcher.
First of all, the Twins are claiming they don’t know who leaked that they won the rights and holding firm that they were not informed by the MLB of their winning,
It was two #MNTwins people over the last 24 hours that said they hadn't been told a thing on Yang Hyeon-jong. Not sure who leaked Twins won.
— Darren Wolfson (@DWolfsonKSTP) November 24, 2014
There’s even a report that the Texas Rangers actually won the bigging for Yang.
Piggybacks on my #MNTwins tweet this a.m. >>> RT @MyKBO: MK Sports reporting the Rangers won the rights to negotiate with Yang Hyeon-jong.
— Darren Wolfson (@DWolfsonKSTP) November 24, 2014
Yang meet with his KBO team on Sunday morning. Maybe due to the Twins bid, or maybe not.
Following #MNTwins' bid, LHP Yang Hyeon-jong and his #KBO team #KiaTigers met on Sunday. Not much came from the meeting...
— Jeeho Yoo (@Jeeho_1) November 23, 2014
Oh, the Kia Tigers don’t even need to let Yang go. They’re still deciding on that.
#KBO has said it will tell #MLB of the #KiaTigers decision by 7 a.m., Nov. 28 (Korean time). So the Tigers have 4 more days...
— Jeeho Yoo (@Jeeho_1) November 23, 2014
MLB doesn’t tell the teams who won the bid…
Person familiar w/process:
— Mike BerardinoNDI (@MikeBerardino) November 24, 2014
MLB typically doesn't notify its teams who won bidding until posting team officially accepts. Kia still mulling
And to round it all out, the Texas Rangers don’t know anything about the report that they won either.
Person familiar w/process: #Rangers saying they don't know anything about MK Sports report claiming TEX beat out #MNTwins in Yang bidding.
— Mike BerardinoNDI (@MikeBerardino) November 24, 2014
There was a lot of information surrounding Yang on Saturday after the Twins reportedly won, so hopefully you didn’t get your heart set on him. By the looks of the stories about him, no one probably is sadden by the possibility the Twins didn’t win the bidding.
Tweets on Sunday night were saying the Twins might be dodging a bullet. Stay tuned.