In 2019, Jorge Soler broke - nay, DESTROYED - the single-season club home run record and became the first Royals player ever to lead the league in home runs when he smashed 48 dingers. They were not wall-scrapers either, they were massive blasts into the stratosphere.
But as Jorge Soler heads into the summer of his fifth season with the Royals, that 2019 season is beginning to look like a huge outlier.
And this season he is off to his worst start of all. He has a putrid line of .175/.258/.319. There are 153 qualified hitters in baseball, and Soler ranks ahead of just seven of them in wRC+.