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2023 Padres Season Review: Ha-Seong Kim

4.4 fWAR, 152 G, .260 AVG, .351 OBP, .398 SLG, 112 wRC+, 84 R, 60 RBI, 17 HR

Positives From This Season

For all of the negative things that happened to the San Diego Padres this season, Ha-Seong Kim was not one of those. He was certainly a bright spot, as he reached career-bests in runs scored, hits, home runs, walks, batting average, on-base percentage, slugging percentage and OPS.

I think a lot of people started noticing how good Kim has gotten when he started leading off consistently. In 73 games kicking off games for Bob Melvin, the 27-year-old earned a .