"When I saw [Kang] last spring, he looked like he was fairly beatable as a hitter, but when we saw him in the summer, he had done what he needed to do to put together productive, competitive at-bats," Molitor said. "So I don't know how those two will relate over time, but I think there has to be some type of comparison there."

Park and Kang were teammates with Nexen from 2011-14, and both were coming off huge seasons before heading to the Majors.