Comfort level grows in second season after coming to United States from Korea
At Yatap High School in the Seoul suburb of Seongnam, Korea, it boiled down to old-fashioned hard work. Dust off the glove. Trot out to the infield. Let the repetitions pile up like late-fall firewood.
All those ground balls, all those years ago, transformed critical big-league-level mechanics into muscle memory. Thoughts on how to handle any given ground-ball moment have now been honed to almost imperceptible reaction.In his second season in a new country, working in a new league, with new teammates and language hurdles, the skill finally is infused with confidence.“We saw it as soon as he got here,” Machado said.
Machado asked whether someone had seen a recent play that left him awed, when Kim nearly converted an impossibly awful hop. Second baseman Jake Cronenworth cherry-picked his own highlight of his teammate, when Kim hustled to cover third in Pittsburgh as Machado chased a pop fly down the line.
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