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Mike Zunino's Current Hot Streak Was Inevitable

To say that Mike Zunino's big league career with the Seattle Mariners has been a bumpy ride thus far is probably a bit of an understatement.

The catcher was taken with the third overall pick in the 2012 MLB Draft, and while college players sometimes get fast-tracked through the minors -- Zunino was selected out of the University of Florida -- it doesn't always bring the best possible results. It took him just 96 minor league games (and 419 plate appearances) to reach the majors in 2013, and it was easy to look at his Isolated Power (ISO) of .