Korean baseball suspend Baltimore Orioles’ Kim Seong-min – MLB News
Korean baseball has suddenly taken a drastic step forward to record somewhat of a protest against Major League Baseball late Wednesday night when they suspended newly signed Baltimore Orioles’ 17-year-old pitching sensation Kim Seong-min from playing or any kind of coaching within the country.
Reports rattled many in the US especially in MLB after hearing this kind of suspension from KBA, who earlier has also recorded a protest against the League for stealing their talent without them knowing. MLB scouts have briefly looked at Seong-min’s game during his two years in Korea’s Junior National Baseball team before giving him a potential Major League contract.
A talented high school sophomore, Seong-min is an exceptional pitcher while a hidden string of negotiations between his agent and the Orioles landed him into the biggest baseball league in the world during the offseason.
This late deal is second in the history of KBA as one of their players signed a MLB deal during his sophomore year in the past. Earlier, in 1997, Bong Jung-keun signed with Atlanta Braves.
At that time as well, Korea’s baseball governing body KBA did record a protest against Major League authorities who always liked to extract talent from all across the world especially from Venezuela, Cuba, Dominican Republic, Korea and Japan.
Though still Major League Baseball or the Orioles did not comment on anything regarding this late suspension of their 17-year-old pitcher but reports are suggesting that the Orioles' management is planning to issue a brief statement in relation to a solid answer. This will eventually convey to the Korean Baseball that this late suspension is no good for their own League in the future.
Meanwhile, talking about the level of talent and game that Kim Seong-min plays, the Orioles' executive vice president Dan Duquette has recently stated in the media and told reporters that he is quite mature enough to begin his career on a professional level and the KBA is getting irrational on this particular situation. Duquette said, “He’s a player we think is mature enough to begin his career, and apparently he and his family think that as well.”
Many experts agree that KBA and MLB should be sitting together to resolve this issue, solving all matters before it gets worse.
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