Opening Day Is Almost Here, 5,000 Miles from Home

Baseball is baseball, from Phoenix to Australia to South Korea to Japan to Phoenix and back to South Korea again.

Casey Kelly can promise you that, including the geography.

In an effort to launch the Korea Baseball Organization's season in the midst of the COVID-19 pandemic, the 2008 first-round pick of the Boston Red Sox and current pitcher for the KBO's LG Twins has blazed a trail of fastballs, thermometers, airplanes and breaking news since late January. And though the games will be played thousands of miles away from the nearest major league stadium, it's worth paying attention.

Right now, aside from the tiny five-team Chinese Professional Baseball League in Taiwan, the KBO is the only…