A new frontier beckons for the St. Louis Cardinals and the rest of the baseball world. This morning, Craig Calcaterra reported that the Nexen Heroes and the Korean Baseball Organization are posting slugging first baseman Byung-ho Park.
A year ago, I would have been tepid on any player coming out of Korea. Today? I’m a little warmer. At
around this time last year, the Pittsburgh Pirates signed Jung Ho Kang to a 4-year, $11 million deal in January to the collective shrug of everyone else in baseball. Heck, even Pirates general manager Neal Huntington expected Kang to be a complementary player.