Since Kolten Wong was a first-round draft pick in 2011, everyone wondered what the undersized Hawaiian would become for the St. Louis Cardinals. I don’t mean undersized as an insult as he has referred to himself as “the pebble,” and at 5-9, 185lb, he isn’t physically imposing.
Rising through the minor leagues, Wong proved what he could do with his hit tools and defense, but struggled to put it together in the Majors. Now finished with his seventh year as an MLB player, we’ve seen many different versions of Wong.
We saw an attempted power hitter in 2014 (12 homers), the gap-aiming slap hitter in 2017 (.