Jake Cave, a six-year Major League Baseball outfielder who spent last year in South Korea with the Doosan Bears, has found a spot in Mexico’s Liga Mexicana de Beisbol, and another slugger appears to be headed the other way.
El Aguila de Veracruz announced on Wednesday that Jake Cave, who spent the preseason with the Tecolotes de los Dos Laredos, was added to the roster and made his debut with Veracruz Wednesday night. Cave batted .299/.351/.463 with an .819 OPS, 16 homers and 87 RBIs in 136 games with Doosan last year. In 523 MLB games with the Minnesota Twins, Philadelphia Phillies, and Colorado Rockies, Cave had a .692 OPS with 45 homers and 176 RBIs.
Meanwhile, slugger Aderlin Rodriguez, who led the LMB with 35 homers in 2025, has signed with the KBO’s Kia Tigers, Francys Romero of BeisbolFR.com reported Wednesday.
CON UN PIE EN ASIA
El slugger dominicano Aderlín Rodríguez (@TorosDeTijuana) está muy cerca de firmar contrato para emigrar de la Liga Mexicana de Beisbol al beisbol asiático.
De acuerdo a reportes desde Corea, los KIA Tigers de la KBO serían el equipo con el que firmaría el… pic.twitter.com/lpzkURjwqz
— Beisbolpuro (@Beisbolpuro) April 29, 2026
Rodriguez, 34, played 1,219 games between 2009-22 in the affiliated minor leagues but never appeared in an MLB game, hitting 60 homers and batting .296/.358/.580 in 236 Triple-A games. He signed with the Hanshin Tigers of Nippon Professional Baseball in 2022, splitting the season between the NPB club and the farm team, before heading to Mexico for 2023, where he hit 70 homers in 220 games from 2023 until signing with Kia. This year, he appeared in seven games for Tijuana, going 9-for-28 with two RBIs, but had yet to homer for the Toros.
Photo: Jake Cave batted .299/.351/.463 with an .819 OPS, 16 homers and 87 RBIs in 136 games with Doosan last year, and will now join the LMB’s El Aguila de Veracruz. (Photo courtesy of the LMB)
