Watching Jorge Soler eclipse Mike Moustakas for the Kansas City Royals single-season home run record has been a nice distraction from the team sliding to another 100 loss season. For the last week and a half, there is also the drama of seeing if Soler can become the first Kansas City player to lead the American League in dingers.
As I have kept a closer eye on this effort by Soler, I started noticing that many of these long balls had distances the began with the number four…as in over 400 feet. These were not balls that were just skimming over the fence or majestic moon shots that looked good on TV but were only carrying 350 feet.