Washington Post article on Kim

[Going Underground]

Remember how they said Kim couldn't handle ML velocity?

<blockquote class="twitter-tweet" data-lang="en"><p lang="en" dir="ltr">Hyun-soo Kim is batting .438 (42 for 96) vs fastballs this year... Wow.<a href="https://t.co/Hn8RzZj02C">https://t.co/Hn8RzZj02C</a></p>— Daren Willman (@darenw) <a href="

">July 29, 2016</a></blockquote>

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Maybe Lost in Translation.

[OriolesMagic83]

When Kim's contract is finished, does he go to arbitration or is he a free agent? I'm glad he's doing well for the O's. He seems to always hustle and has good baseball instincts unlike for example, Rickard.

[InsideCoroner]

When Kim's contract is finished, does he go to arbitration or is he a free agent? I'm glad he's doing well for the O's. He seems to always hustle and has good baseball instincts unlike for example, Rickard.

My understanding was that he will be a FA after the '17 season.

[srock]

I'm not sure I got that for the article. Buck stopped playing Kim this spring, pure and simple. He didn't want him on the roster to start the year. He rarely played him in April even after he got a few hits. The fact that Kim said, "There's really a lot of things I could say, but I'll stop there," kinda speaks volumes if you ask me.

Now I don't pretend to know what Buck was exactly thinking this spring, but when his first comments about Kim were about his weight you can read between the lines that he wasn't happy with the way he showed up to camp. After the slow start, I think Buck just buried him a bit. The one thing we know about Buck is if you are "one of his guys" you have a good chance of sticking around and if your not, you will be out the door pretty quick if they can do it contractually.

As much as love Buck and think he's a great manager, probably the 2nd best Orioles manager behind Earl Weaver, he does have tendency to make up his mind about a young (In Kim's case new to MLB) player real quickly. Now I'm not syaing Buck doesn't have a pretty good track record of making the correct call, but in Kim's case, I real something rubbed him the wrong way about him early on and it ended up with Buck hoping he would go back to Korea or take a minor league assignment.

One could argue Buck pushed all the right motivational buttons. Whatever ailed Kim in ST, he has overcome it.

Was it Buck's approach? Who knows. But here we are.

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One could argue Buck pushed all the right motivational buttons. Whatever ailed Kim in ST, he has overcome it.

Was it Buck's approach? Who knows. But here we are.

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One could also argue that, by virtue of talent and determination, Kim embarrassed Buck to the degree he richly deserved, but no more.

[El Gordo]

One could also argue that, by virtue of talent and determination, Kim embarrassed Buck to the degree he richly deserved, but no more.

:agree: