Youngsters Choi Sung Young and Je Yeong Jo Duel in the KBO

The NC Dinos and Doosan Bears’ offense take advantage of the inexperience

While negotiations between the MLB Player’s Union and the owners of the big-league clubs drag on, the Korean Baseball Organization has begun its season, with a game per day broadcasted on ESPN, helping to fill our need for baseball.

Action in the KBO rolls on and the NC Dinos beat the Doosan Bears 12–8 in the first game of the three-game series that the 1st and 2nd ranked teams in the league are playing. Both teams, the Dinos and the Bears have been very offensive heavy this season and each threw a very inexperienced starter out, resulting how you’d expect.

Choi Sung Young, a 23-year-old LHP, started the game for the NC Dinos and had a decent game until things started to fall apart towards the end of his outing.

Choi threw 77 pitches over 3.2 innings of work, allowing 4 runs. Two things jumped out to me initially; Choi did a pretty good job of throwing strikes, throwing a strike 66% of the time, but he also only induced 4 whiffs off of 40 swings for a 10% whiff rate, which is bad…