While most of us KC Royals fans were focused on watching Jorge Soler shatter the single-season home run record, he was also taking free passes at a rate not seen on the team for many years. Soler tied Alex Gordon‘s mark of 73 walks back in 2012 and prior to that, the highest was way back in 1998 when Jose Offerman drew 89.
Soler just missed cracking the top 10 in the AL for walks tying Matt Chapman of the Oakland A’s for eleventh. That was three shy of Xander Bogaerts of the Boston Red Sox, who had 25 more at bats than Soler.