Korea Baseball Organization left-hander Eric Jokisch had a brief run with the Cubs in 2014, but he hasn’t pitched in the majors since then. It’s possible Jokisch will return to baseball’s highest level next season, though, as Robert Murray of Fansided tweets that he’s “considering” a comeback and is garnering interest from MLB teams.
An 11th-round pick of the Cubs in 2010, Jokisch spent most of his stateside time in the minors, including a 570 2/3-inning run at the Triple-A level with the affiliates of Chicago, Miami, Arizona and Oakland. The soft-tossing Jokisch combined for a 4.02 ERA with 6.8 K/9 and 2.6 BB/9 in Triple-A ball with those organizations. He did, however, post a sterling 1.88 ERA (alongside a far less encouraging 5.30 FIP) with 6.28 K/9, 2.51 BB/9 and a 51 percent groundball rate in his lone taste of MLB action – a 14 1/3-inning sample size.
While Jokisch, now 31, hasn’t established himself in the majors, he has performed brilliantly since immigrating to Korea before the 2019 campaign. In his two seasons in the KBO, Jokisch has pitched to a 2.66 ERA with 6.8 K/9 and 1.7 BB/9 over 335 1/3 frames. Jokisch won the ERA title in the KBO in 2020, Murray notes, and now MLB teams are taking notice.
From the 1 A.M. KBO games I’ve watched, he looks pretty decent but I wouldn’t want him on my favorite team. Maybe a trip to the Reds to be a Brooks Raley 2.0
Raley got more strikeouts per nine innings but also walked more too. Jokich was also injured for part of 2020 so he might have done even better otherwise.
Should I make jokes about his surname?
I’m sure there’s a jokisch in there somewhere.
Lol. If I recall, it’s actually pronounced yoke-ish.
dont egg him on now
He’s pitching against AA talent in striving he did the same thing against AAA talent here in the states when he gets the major leagues are going to light him up another signing for the Mets
Its a small sample, but when he did reach the majors, he didn’t get lit up. In fact, he produced numbers similar to what he did overseas.