Pitcher suspended indefinitely from playing in S. Korea after joining MLB team
SEOUL, Feb. 8 (Yonhap) -- A teenage pitcher was suspended indefinitely by the country's top baseball agency on Wednesday, after signing with a Major League Baseball (MLB) team before graduation.
The Korea Baseball Association, the local governing body of the sport, handed down the suspension on Kim Seong-min, a 17-year-old who pitched for Daegu Sangwon High School, about 300 kilometers southeast of Seoul.