JUPITER, Fla. • The pitcher was from South Korea, the catcher from South Columbus. Oh and the Ohioan. After Friday’s bullpen session, pitcher Seung Hwan Oh was joined on the mound by Eric Fryer, and then manager Mike Matheny and translator Eugene Koo (incidentally also Ohioans).
Fryer’s Korean is limited. So he asked about Oh’s two different sliders — in future bullpens sessions, would Oh give different glove signals for each slider? Through Koo, Oh explained he’ll give the same signal, but just “plus or minus it.”
Then, a little comic relief from the relief pitcher: “You’ll catch it, right?