First ~550 at-bats: .265/.340/.395/.735 (which'll get you a 111 OPS+ with Safeco as your home field. That's fine. Ackley's fair comp is the previous college hitter of a decade (or two), Robin Ventura.
Ventura's first real season: ~500 at bats, .250/.325/.320/.645 (83 OPS+). His OPS+ the next 6 seasons? 126, 127, 120, 116, 132, 127.
Of course it's always possible Ackley is ONLY his current level of hitter and never gets better, which would just make him a 5 WAR/season guy (yes, with his "poor" second base defense that's what he's credited with over his 145 game career so far on B-Ref). Fangraphs is more down-in-the-mouth about him - it's 3.7 WAR there.
But if you need MORE than a 3.5-to-5 WAR guy to enjoy his play, just wait til next year. It's coming. ;-)
In the meantime, it's great that Seager and Saunders look to be comfortable and settling in already while Ackley and Smoak and Montero are still standing in the doorway taking their coats off. Gonna be quite a team...
~G
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