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More usual is something like Pena's 110 to 130-140 (which occurred later than 26, of course).
Probably there would be a fair amount of big players who leaped from "average/below-average" to "well above average" in the course of a month or two ... but the number would be reduced because few would get the chance.
Smoak's been given a whale of a lot of tolerance by the M's. Perhaps it is about to pay off, and if so, they'll be in no mood to let him go. Does he have a different agent than Ackley and Franklin?