Baseball|Konsta Kurikka moves to New Jersey Jackals.
Finnish raised on baseball fields Konsta Kurikka As the first baseball background player, received a professional contract for the US baseball fields. The Finnish Baseball and Softball Association reported this at a media conference on Wednesday.
Kurikka is a former Superpesis player. He has focused on baseball in recent years with the aim of the Background. Kurikka joins the New Jersey Jackals team in Frontier League.
Frontier League is an independent professional league with 15 teams from the United States and three from Canada. The series is a top series of Major League Baseball Partner League.
“The series has produced over a thousand players in MLB,” chairman of the Finnish baseball and Softball Association Jukka Ropponen opened.
“Now we are a few, two three steps away from that big dream. Konsta once made a slogan by” throwing in “. Now he is there. Waiting for a work permit. The applications are inside. Then he goes there.”
Kurikka has previously played baseball in Germany and Australia, for example, but in North America, he is waiting for a terrible pace and standards than before.
“The pace of the game is the pace of professionals. From May to September, 96 matches are played. So six games will come for a week. A few times you can wear the uniform,” Kurikka laughed.
Konsta Kurikka earns money by throwing the ball.
In baseball teams There are several feeders, so the responsibility is distributed to several players. Kurika also has time for training.
“The position of the feeder is good that you can train, develop and return on flute days,” Kurikka said.
The Juvian -based player has made a baseball field for years and later on baseball.
“This is by far the biggest step in the career so far. Getting into a professional series to America is a good thing.”
In Frontier League, the average player fee per season is about $ 70,000 ($ 65,000) in addition to bonuses. Kurikka does not reveal the exact amount, but considers the contract to be the best of his career so far.
“When playing in Dubai, the daily compensation was right, but the time there was short. In North America, the amount of work is higher when the number of matches is higher.”
By comparison, in the domestic baseball fields, contracts of that size have been rare. If Kurikka will one day clear its way to MLB, you can easily add zero or a couple to the payroll.