Alex Kirilloff Goes Yard
3 years agoMinnesota Twins outfielder/first baseman Alex Kirilloff belted his first home run since May 2 in Monday's 4-3 loss to the Seattle Mariners. Kirilloff's blast traveled a whopping 421 feet at an exit velocity of 105 MPH. The 23-year-old has had a power outage lately, though he has barreled 14 balls out of 91 put in play and has maintained a hard-hit rate of 49.5 percent and an average exit velocity of 93.3 MPH. If he can slightly increase his launch angle and trade some of those line drives for more fly balls, his actual numbers will start to look something like his expected ones, which place him among the league's best hitters this season.
Source: Baseball Savant
Source: Baseball Savant