Sometimes players actually find the grass greener after leaving Major League Baseball to play overseas. That has been precisely the case for former Philadelphia Phillies pitching prospect Drew Anderson after joining the Korea Professional Baseball League (KBO) in recent years.
During the 2025 season, Anderson posted a mind-boggling stat that no one would have envisioned during his time in North America. In Cy Young-like fashion, the 31-year-old right-hander recorded a whopping 245 strikeouts in just 171 2/3 innings over 30 starts for the SSG Landers.
Former Phillies prospect Drew Anderson is a strikeout machine in KBO
That type of performance certainly came as a surprise, since Anderson was never known as a strikeout machine during his time in the Phillies system and in MLB.