The NC Dinos of the Korea Baseball Group introduced yesterday that they’ve signed left-hander Eric Jokisch to a $100K deal for the remainder of the season. The information was relayed (on X) by Dan Kurtz of MyKBO, who tweeted earlier this week that the Dinos had been waiving southpaw Daniel Castano to facilitate a deal for an additional international participant.
KBO groups can have a most of two non-Korean pitchers on their roster. The Dinos signed former Purple Sox left-hander Kyle Hart over the offseason. He’s having a really good season, working to a 2.47 ERA by way of 124 innings. Castano had a extra pedestrian 4.35 mark in 111 2/3 frames. He struck out 18.7% of opponents in opposition to a tidy 5.3% stroll share.
Castano is a former nineteenth spherical choose by the Cardinals who went to the Marlins within the Marcell Ozuna/Sandy Alcantara/Zac Gallen commerce. He’d go on to make 24 appearances over components of 4 seasons in Miami, working principally as a depth starter. Castano turned in a 4.47 ERA in 88 2/3 large league innings. He made the leap to Korea final offseason, not lengthy after being waived by Miami in September.
Jokisch can also be a former large leaguer, although he’s been way more established in Korea. His main league work consists of 4 appearances for the Cubs a decade in the past. The Northwestern product subsequently kicked off a really profitable KBO run wherein he turned in a 2.85 earned run common over 5 seasons as a member of the Kiwoom Heroes. His tenure with the Heroes got here to an unlucky finish final summer time when he suffered a muscle tear in his leg that led the workforce to launch him. (Injured gamers would nonetheless rely in opposition to a KBO workforce’s international participant restrict.) The 35-year-old will get a brand new alternative to renew his profession.
In a single different little bit of KBO information — or extra precisely, lack thereof — reporter Daniel Kim tweets that July 31 was the Korean league’s commerce deadline. There have been zero trades made.
