TT: Something to consider when talking about Hyun Soo Kim

[weams]

I remember when Josh Bell came within 6 inches of his third home run in his first game for the Orioles.

[Frobby]

Kim is beginning to get his hits, but it seems that all of them either never left the infield or at least got touched by an infielder before reaching the outfield. I'd love to see him smack a double somewhere already.

[MDtransplant757]

The only people I want to cancel their subs I have on ignore because of their Cal-like streaks of willful ignorance and blind negativity. I think you know who they are, and you're definitely not them.

I'm not either, right?

Sent from Neverneverland using James Hetfield's voice

[PaulFolk]

I remember when Josh Bell came within 6 inches of his third home run in his first game for the Orioles.

It was his 24th game, but your point is valid-- beware of small sample size.

[OFFNY]

I remember when Josh Bell came within 6 inches of his third home run in his first game for the Orioles.

I remember that, too. It was not his first game as an Oriole, but I remember it. It was a Saturday afternoon.

The ball hit off of the wall in right-centerfield, and he had to settle for a double.

It was actually high and deep enough. It was just a little too much to the right, where the tall wall begins. If it was about one foot more toward the left, it would have been his 3rd HR of the game.

[DrungoHazewood]

I remember when Josh Bell came within 6 inches of his third home run in his first game for the Orioles.

I'd like to know what happened to Bell. It's almost like his career died when he missed that third homer. He was a top 50 prospect in the game in 2010, had an .810 OPS for Norfolk where nobody hits. Then came to the show and immediately popped a 53:2 K:BB ratio and just never hit anywhere again.

(Oh, and his near-three-homer game was his 24th for the O's. The near-homer was actually a single.)

[Can_of_corn]

I'd like to know what happened to Bell. It's almost like his career died when he missed that third homer. He was a top 50 prospect in the game in 2010, had an .810 OPS for Norfolk where nobody hits. Then came to the show and immediately popped a 53:2 K:BB ratio and just never hit anywhere again.

I know he spent a year in Korea.

[Can_of_corn]

Yeah, odd story. He wasn't a can't-miss guy, but seemed like he could have at least been a classic Orioles power guy.

I figured he was going to be big in Korea.

[Tony-OH]

I remember when Josh Bell came within 6 inches of his third home run in his first game for the Orioles.

Wasn't his first game, but it was a Hangout night! lol

[DrungoHazewood]

I'm not either, right?

Certainly not. When did you join a few years ago? You'd have to post nothing but vile bitterness and conspiracy theories, leavened with a bit of RBIs-and-on-field-violence-are-so-much-better-than-WAR rants, for like three years straight to get on my ignore list.

[DrungoHazewood]

I know he spent a year in Korea.

63 games for the '14 LG Twins. Something like the 5th-best hitter on a .500 team, 200 OPS points shy of Byung-kyu Lee. If you're a batter going to Korea sign with Nexen or Samsung, where every game is like 7-6.

[Tony-OH]

I'd like to know what happened to Bell. It's almost like his career died when he missed that third homer. He was a top 50 prospect in the game in 2010, had an .810 OPS for Norfolk where nobody hits. Then came to the show and immediately popped a 53:2 K:BB ratio and just never hit anywhere again.

(Oh, and his near-three-homer game was his 24th for the O's. The near-homer was actually a single.)

He was batting (.216/.237/.257/.494) before that game and after that game Bell proceeded to hit (.185/.185/.247/.432) over his next 81 major league PAs. He then hit .168/.223/.212/.436 over 113 PAs the next two years with the Orioles and Diamondbacks. So outside that one game, he wa a sub .600 OPS hitter in the major leagues. In other words, even a blind squirrel finds a nut sometimes.

[Going Underground]

I remember when Josh Bell came within 6 inches of his third home run in his first game for the Orioles.

The great Jake Fox plays in Korea. Also went to the University of Michigan. Go Wolverines.

[Sessh]

I remember when Josh Bell came within 6 inches of his third home run in his first game for the Orioles.

He hit them both off Cliff Lee to boot.

[Sessh]

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<blockquote class="twitter-tweet" data-lang="en"><p lang="en" dir="ltr">Buck and Kim watched video last night of his at-bats in Korea. <a href="

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Buck said Kim had his best at-bats today.

#orioles

— Roch Kubatko (@masnRoch)

March 16, 2016

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I would agree. He looked good in the box today. More specifically, less anxious and more relaxed. He even got one of his hits going against the shift after getting burned earlier in the game.