Last year, in his first season St. Louis Cardinals, Seung-hwan Oh‘s was almost unhittable. The Stone Buddha was baffling hitters with a wipe-out slider and a deceiving fastball. Hitters were unfamiliar with his delivery and pitching tactics, but now with a season under his belt, the closer-of-old has regressed mightily.
To make his struggles only more apparent, Oh has already given up more home runs than last year in forty-three less innings. His ERA (3.75) is up two runs and his FIP (fielding independent pitching) is nearing a three run increase (4.