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Edgar's career AAA numbers were .344-.450-.495 over 1159 PA's. In '85 he went .353-.450-.485 in his 20 game AAA stint at the end of the year. Then the next year he was BACK DOWN in AA. Explain that!
This is why his late opportunity is weird. He killed AAA in '87 and then hit .372 in 46 Seattle PA's. Seattle won all of 78 games that year but back down he went (Seattle had Alvin Davis at 1B and Ken Phelps at DH) He killed AAA more in '88, but only hit .281-.351-.406 in his Sept. call up, so down he went. Seattle won 68 games that year, but still had Phelps and Davis. They had moved Phelps at mid-year, but then they gave the DH to Bye Bye Balboni!!!!! Edgar had to crush AAA for 32 more games in '89 to get his chance.
He should have been the man to begin '88. He had shown his stuff. Phelps should have been swapped out then.
Edgar had an extensive AAA pedigree. Not so Smoak. If he keeps this up against RHP, you'll get no whining from me. But the pattern for him has always been a hot month then a long collapse. This last hot month has given him, in the Wedge world, a long grace-period if and when he collapses. I will complain about that. I'm not yet sure this is the real Smoak. If he reverts back to the guy who was here the first 20 games, then we should be alarmed. But this guy? He's fine.