Ex-Cy Young contender Carrasco embracing weight of expectations in KBO

Every once in a while, a player of Carlos Carrasco's stature decides to take his talents to South Korea and prompts fans to ask why: As in, why did someone like Carrasco, a former Cy Young Award contender who won 112 games across 17 seasons in Major League Baseball and who was once a key part of a rotation on a World Series-bound club, come to the Korea Baseball Organization?

With 343 MLB games under his belt at age 39, walking into the sunset would have been a perfectly fine move for Carrasco, ...