Off Season Roundup

Our off-season hibernation is over. Simon is back and ready to rock. I'm slightly less busy than I was during the off-season. It's amazing to me that the off-season is busier for fantasy baseball websites than the regular season is. There's more of an emphasis on draft preparation than in-season moves. Shouldn't it be the other way around?

This KBO off-season was bizarre. First, we had two LG Twins pitchers(Kim Seong-hyeon and Park Hyun-joon) indicted in a match fixing scandal, suspended and released. These two will likely never pitch in the KBO again.

We also had four Korean baseball Legends make their return to Korea. Park Chan-ho will finally make his debut for the Hanhwa Eagles and Kim Tae-gyun and Lee Seung-yeop will return to the Eagles and Samsung Lions. Kim Byung-hyun will make his return to competitive baseball with the Nexen Heroes.

Lee Dae-ho got tired of being woefully underpaid and took a big money offer to play for the Orix Buffaloes of the NPB.

The Baltimore Orioles have been banned from scouting in Korea over the controversy surrounding the signing of 17-year old pitcher Lee Seong-min. Baltimore forgot to/didn't ask for permission to sign Lee and the KBO was very, very upset with them.

Finally, in the saddest story of the off-season, a rookie referred to in press releases only as "Lee" died when he became intoxicated and fell down a flight of stairs in early January.

It's been a long, cold off-season and it's nice to have the KBO back in my life. It's been too long.

Is It Spring Yet?

You know its the offseason when I'm posting pics of LG catcher Cho In-seong drinking from a coconut in Saipan.