Kwang Hyun Kim, the South Korean lefthander signed to a two-year deal by the Cardinals in the offseason, has left the Cardinals’ training site in Jupiter, Fla., and is in St. Louis at the club’s request.
And president of baseball operations John Mozeliak, in a Zoom teleconference with reporters Thursday, said Kim may even be allowed to return to South Korea to see his wife and two small children in Incheon.
“I can only imagine the mental challenge he’s under with his wife and children back in South Korea and trying to adapt to a new country and a new team and then have all this thrust upon him,” said Mozeliak, referring to the coronavirus pandemic where cases have dropped sharply in South Korea in the last two weeks.