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“And then being able to impact the ball a little bit more and ride out some off-speed pitches in a better way, there’s definitely some pieces there that we feel like we can address to tap into the upside.”

Will the left-handed-hitting Kim, a lean 5-foot-10, 176-pounder who was a .304 hitter in six-plus KBO seasons, be able to handle the higher velocity and nastier breaking balls and off-speed pitches that he’ll see in the U.S.?

He quickly found the command of his splitter, slider and curve after throwing his first few off-speed pitches out of the zone.

There was a time when Buehler wouldn’t have even considered throwing an off-speed pitch in that situation.

“I was talking to the hitting guys and I was like, ‘I think we gotta be on the fastball against Yu — he’s got way too many pitches to cover, and if you’re sitting off-speed, he’s got like five off-speed pitches,’ ” Hernández said.