Frank Herrmann is still putting his Harvard University education to good use. Just not in the way, and certainly not in the place, he expected.

Herrmann left the prestigious Ivy League college with a degree in economics, but it's the lessons he learned on the baseball diamond for the Crimson that are serving him most as a reliever for the Tohoku Rakuten Golden Eagles.

"I feel like trying to figure these things out is usually a fruitless task," Herrmann joked to The Japan Times.