10 years after pitching in KBO, well-traveled MLB coach still misses Korea
By Yoo Jee-ho SEOUL, Feb. 20 (Yonhap) -- Doug Mathis may have left South Korea, but South Korea hasn't left him. Mathis, a pitching coach with the Texas Rangers, spent a part of the 2011 season with the Samsung Lions in the Korea Baseball Organization (KBO). It was a brief stop in a journeyman career that began in the minor league in Spokane, Washington, saw him pitch in the big leagues for the Rangers from 2008 to 2010, and later took him to Japan, Venezuela and Taiwan. In a recent phone interview with Yonhap News Agency to discuss the Rangers' new South Korean player, left-hander Yang Hy...
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