SURPRISE, Ariz. -- There are two things that will raise eyebrows if you're around Peter O'Brien on a baseball field.
First, O'Brien can hit a baseball about as far as anyone in the game. In fact, last Spring Training, when O'Brien was with the D-backs, he hit a home run with an exit velocity of 119.5 mph, making it the hardest home run hit since Statcast™ began tracking that data.
Royals manager Ned Yost calls O'Brien's power "prodigious" and recalled something D-backs chief baseball analyst Tony La Russa once told Royals hitting coach Dale Sveum about O'Brien.