Tigers ace Oller credits humility for success in 1st KBO season

About three months into his Korea Baseball Organization (KBO) season, Kia Tigers right-hander Adam Oller finds himself among the league leaders in wins, ERA, strikeouts, innings pitched and quality starts. Few would bat an eye if Oller, with an 8-3 record, a 3.03 ERA and 107 strikeouts in 95 innings across 16 starts, strutted around feeling great about himself. But the 30-year-old American pitcher wants to stay humble, the way he has been since the start of his KBO career, because he knows that baseball is, well, a humbling game. "I like to stay humble because you get a little egotistical and that's usually when things backfire on you," Oller told Yonhap News Agency in an interview at Gocheok Sky Dome in Seoul on Thursday, a day after he held the Kiwoom Heroes to two runs on five hits in six frames in a 6-3 victory. "I like to stay humble just because these guys are good. I've played against some really good veteran Korean players and really good young Korean players that are impressive." Oller, who made 36 appearances in Major League Baseball (MLB) from 2022 to 2024, said he didn't wanWeiter zum vollständigen Artikel bei Korea Times Weiter zum vollständigen Artikel bei Korea Times