This story was featured in Issue 6.2 of Royals Baseball Insider.
A beam of sunlight shined through the clouds and into a batting cage in Miami, Florida. A young Cuban slugger took another hack off the tee, causing a thwack sound to echo throughout the neighborhood. It was the winter of 2018.
That’s where the slugger learned to generate what’s now referred to in Kansas City as Soler power.
Three years before Jorge Soler became the Royals’ single-season home run leader, he won a World Series with the Chicago Cubs.