Baseball transaction foiled due to league's oversight

The South Korean professional baseball league has offered a mea culpa after its oversight prevented a club from acquiring a minor league pitcher. The Korea Baseball Organization apologized to both the LG Twins of the KBO and the Ulsan Whales of the developmental Futures League late Wednesday, after the Twins' attempt to acquire Whales pitcher Akitake Okada fell through earlier in the day. The Twins nearly signed Okada as a replacement for Australian pitcher Lachlan Wells, who had been pitching p