Say it ain’t so, Seunghwan Oh.
According to Wednesday’s report via the Yonhap News Agency, the 36-year-old veteran right-handed reliever is considering going back to South Korea for next season.
As for his reasons for a desired return to the Korea Baseball Organization, Oh cited the 24/7 demands of living in a foreign country — his interpreter Eugene Koo needed at his side at all times — in addition to the fact that his family is always 6,000-plus miles away.
One of Asia’s all-time greatest bullpen arms pitched in the major leagues for the past three seasons with the Cardinals, Blue Jays and Rockies, and Colorado acquired him from Toronto in a deadline trade on July 26.