After being a fixture in the Cleveland Indians’ bullpen for the past two seasons, Jeff Manship is heading to South Korea, as reported by Jon Heyman over the weekend.
The Indians had the chance to tender Manship a contract back in December, but opted to move on after an average year from the reliever.
After a 2015 season in which Manship finished with an ERA of 0.92 in 32 appearances, 2016 saw him finish with an ERA of 3.12 in 53 appearances. This came in only four more innings of work.
Manship also only appeared in three of the Indians’ 15 postseason games in 2016, as Andrew Miller, Cody Allen, and Bryan Shaw took up most of the workload out of the bullpen.