Kjerstad, 24, was selected No. 2 by the Orioles in the 2020 MLB Draft.
Kjerstad looked very good this year and continues to make contact at higher rates even as he’s moved up the ladder to Triple A, with just a 17.5 percent strikeout rate at that level — lower than his strikeout rate in his last full year at the University of Arkansas.
Kjerstad has always made very hard contact, which the Orioles hoped would become 25-30 homer power as they worked with him on his hitting, and that seems to be where he is now. There are some small red flags in his Triple-A line — he’s chasing stuff out of the zone too much and still has struggles with same-side breaking balls — but it’s great to see him doing the stuff Baltimore expected of him when they made him the second overall pick three years ago.
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