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Do you let him (hopefully) destroy AAA until rosters expand before bringing him up again? I would think ideally Ackley punishes AAA for another hundred at bats...but then I think it would be nice if the pitchers do something a bit different and he has to adjust away from the bright lights of the big leagues. I don't know if AAA pitchers are up to the task of beating him consistently though.
Is that what makes a AAAA player? Maybe they just don't get the opportunity to make the adjustments they need to. At AAA the pitchers aren't doing enough to challenge them, and in the big leagues the pitchers make the adjustment so quickly that a young player (like Ackley) can get lost and end up reversing everything they have spent a lifetime building.
Wedge has talked about "soft landings" for prospects. I wonder if anyone has ever tried an approach to break in new talent by only starting them against the bottom 2/3rd of the opposing starting pitchers. But even those pitchers are way better than the standard AAA pitcher.
I am really just grasping at straws to try to understand why so many of our prospects hit the wall and then can't climb over it. And then the frustration over Saunders climbing the wall...only to plummet into another brutal stretch. It is frustrating for me (and I imagine all-consuming for GMZ).