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Not trying to be insulting, but his swing really looks like a 1970's female tennis player hitting a backhand two-handed.
Going to left, his lower body is completely static and he is essentially just steering the ball onto a line for a soft single.
Goint to right, his torque load is stiff and he rotates the top of his hand farrrrr too much over the ball.   Raul Ibanez, Diego Segui topspin is one thing, but Kotchman's best shots hit the infield skin.
There was talk last night that Kotchman hit a "hot smash" and got unlucky, but when none of your balls are going over the infielders' heads in the first place, you're not getting your share of unstoppable hits.
Kotchman's BABIP normalizes -- not at all a given in Safeco -- he's still a 90 OPS+ guy.  He's a walking illustration of the fallacy of pro-UZR dogma.  If you don't get it after watching Kotchman, I don't think it can be got :- )