The Korea Herald

Lim signs with KBO’s Samsung

Mar 26, 2014

SEOUL/GYEONGSAN (Yonhap) ― Free agent right-hander Lim Chang-yong rejoined his former South Korean club Samsung Lions on Wednesday, only days after getting released by the Chicago Cubs, officials here said. The Lions said Lim, 37, agreed to a one-year deal worth 500 million won ($465,000) after holding talks at the team’s minor league training ground in Gyeongsan, North Gyeongsang Province, abou...
SK captain Park Jin-man set to lead

Mar 26, 2014

Though he is entering his 19th season in the Korea Baseball Organization, Park Jin-man, shortstop of the SK Wyverns, said he still gets nervous ahead of the start of a new season. “Every year, opening day puts a lot of pressure on me,” Park said on the sidelines of the annual KBO media day in Seoul. The 2014 KBO season will begin on Saturday. “It’s probably more so this year because I know I do...
The big league way

Mar 25, 2014

Yoon Suk-min adjusting well to life with Orioles
S. Korean pitcher Lim Chang-yong released by Chicago Cubs

Mar 25, 2014

South Korean pitcher Lim Chang-yong has been released by the Chicago Cubs, the Major League Baseball team announced Tuesday. The Cubs' official website stated that Lim was "granted his unconditional release" on Monday local time. The 37-year-old is now a free agent. The right-hander with a sidearm delivery made his MLB debut last September, after a call-up from the minors. He had Tommy John sur...
New faces change KBO landscape

Mar 24, 2014

The preseason in the top South Korean baseball league ended on Sunday with crosstown rivals at the top of the standings, while an unlikely offensive hero led major statistical categories. The Doosan Bears finished the Korea Baseball Organization preseason with the best winning percentage of .667, with four wins, two losses and five draws. Their Seoul rivals, the LG Twins, ended in second place a...
Season of uncertainty ...looms in KBO

Mar 24, 2014

As the top South Korean professional baseball league prepares for the 2014 season, its nine clubs are bracing themselves for what promises to be a season full of changes and uncertainty. The Korea Baseball Organization will begin its 33rd season on Saturday with eight of the nine teams in action. The Samsung Lions, as the three-time defending champions, will open their season at home against the...
Feeling Dodger blue

Mar 23, 2014

Ryu Hyun-jin goes 5 strong innings as the Dodgers sweep D-backs in Australia
Ryu Hyun-jin throws 5 shutout innings to win season debut for Dodgers

Mar 23, 2014

Ryu Hyun-jin of the Los Angeles Dodgers won his first start of the 2014 season against the Arizona Diamondbacks in Australia on Sunday, throwing five shutout innings in LA's 7-5 win in the second game of the Major League Baseball (MLB) opening series Down Under. Ryu stymied the Diamondbacks at Sydney Cricket Ground, yielding just two hits and one walk while striking out five batters. He also wen...
Pitcher Yoon to begin season in minors

Mar 20, 2014

South Korean pitcher Yoon Suk-min will begin his first U.S. season in the minors. The Baltimore Orioles said Wednesday, local time, that they have optioned Yoon to their Triple-A affiliate in Virginia, the Norfolk Tide, where the right-hander is expected to be a starter. Yoon, 27, signed a three-year contract worth $5.575 million in February. He didn’t pitch his first preseason game until last ...
Pitchers having painful spring

Mar 19, 2014

TAMPA, Florida (AP) ― Jarrod Parker, Kris Medlen and Luke Hochevar are out for the season, Patrick Corbin and Brandon Beachy might join them in the operating room. All over spring training, there’s been an outbreak of wrecked elbows and pained pitchers. Next stop, those dreaded words: Tommy John surgery. “It doesn’t surprise me at all,” Tommy John himself said Tuesday. “Tommy John surgery will...
Rivalry gets early kick start in 2014 MLB season

Mar 19, 2014

SYDNEY (AP) ― Suspensions to eight players and a controversial NL West-clinching swimming pool incident last season helped expand a growing rivalry between the Los Angeles Dodgers and Arizona Diamondbacks. But Dodgers manager Don Mattingly says he doesn’t expect any serious animosity to carry over from last year when the teams meet to open the major league season Saturday and Sunday at the Sydne...
Diamondbacks and Dodgers arrive Down Under

Mar 18, 2014

SYDNEY (AP) ― The Arizona Diamondbacks and Los Angeles Dodgers arrived to a very low-key welcome in Australia on Tuesday for their Major League Baseball season-opening series this weekend after 15-hour flights from the U.S. west coast. The Diamondbacks arrived first at Sydney airport about 6 a.m. local time Tuesday, followed about four hours later by the Dodgers. “It’s great to be here,” said D...
Dodgers, D-Backs off to Australia

Mar 17, 2014

Two clubs set to open 2014 MLB season
Yoon shines in Orioles debut

Mar 16, 2014

SARASOTA, Florida (AP) ― South Korean right-hander Yoon Suk-min threw one shutout inning in his debut with the Baltimore Orioles, who got a home run from Chris Davis in a 2-1 victory over a New York Yankees’ split-squad Saturday. The 27-year-old Yoon didn’t exactly face a Murderer’s Row of Yankees, who sent most of their stars to Panama for an exhibition game. Yoon entered in the seventh with t...
New face emerges as unlikely hero for Nexen in preseason

Mar 14, 2014

A virtually unknown outfielder has emerged as an unlikely hero for the Nexen Heroes so far this preseason in the Korea Baseball Organization. Kang Ji-kwang, a 23-year-old pitcher-turned-outfielder, has taken the league by storm, barely a week into the preseason. On Thursday, the right-handed batter belted two home runs and drove in three runs as the Heroes defeated the SK Wyverns 6-0. Both of th...