ATLANTA — When Hyeseong Kim decided to leave South Korea and sign with the Dodgers last winter, it wasn’t to play in Oklahoma City.
But that’s where the 26-year-old Kim has spent the first month of his career in the United States after failing to make the Dodgers’ roster out of spring training. But he got the word after Friday night’s game that he was being promoted to the majors.
“I was very surprised,” Kim said through his interpreter, sitting in the dugout at Truist Park after an early-morning flight to Atlanta on Saturday.