Left for dead after Spring Training, Hyun-Soo Kim is showing he can handle major-league pitching.
"Thundering power".
Brooks Baseball uses this phrase to describe Hyun-Soo Kim's results on fastballs and offspeed pitches in 2016. That's because through Sunday's game, Kim is hitting .478/.538/.522 with a 211 wRC+. He's destroying everything in sight, or at least hitting a lot of singles, prompting a discussion about whether to start him over Joey "Boy Wonder" Rickard.
Most have forgotten his awful Spring Training, the "will he make the major league club?" soap opera, and the boos that greeted his introduction on Opening Day.