David Lesky is impressed with Carter Jensen.

And when he does make contact, which is a lot, he hits the snot out of the ball. He has an average exit velocity of 97.7 MPH. Yes, it’s too small of a sample to do this, but I’m going to do it. Oneil Cruz leads baseball among qualified hitters at 95.8 MPH. His hard-hit rate is 65.6 percent. Kyle Schwarber leads baseball at 59.7 percent. His barrels per batted ball event rate is 25.0 percent. Aaron Judge leas baseball at 24.5 percent. If you lower the minimum batted ball events number to 25, you see Jensen at the top of all of these lists. That’s wild to me.

Bob Nightengale at USA Today reports that Salvy will likely return next year.

– The Kansas City Royals are likely to pick up All-Star catcher Salvador Perez’s $13.5 million club option in

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