Maybe not muscle but certainly possible for it all to be lean weight. What matters is he's obviously stronger and managed to rejig his swing to properly take advantage of it.
Yeah managed to limit the damage when things could have easily got out of hand. I don't expect Kikuchi will be given much leash the rest of the game though.
Nice lineup again today, I like how they've split up the lefties and righties at the bottom of the lineup. Maybe Espinal can be moved up in the lineup if continues to pound that baseball like he has been so far but all in all looks pretty solid.
You would have to think from time to time there are embarrassing situations that lead to in incomprehensible in game switches that get secret from time to time.
When you combine that with a guy that offers 90th percentile defence at both second base and third base and 86th percentile at short stop you have a guy that you might just want to keep long term.