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I don't know if you've noticed recently, but Catricala is doing amazing things in AA, and I'm having trouble attributing them to luck since he did amazing things in High A, and amazing things in Low A.
Vinnie was 4th in the MWL last year in OPS (qualified).  Now, some great hitters left that league half-way through the season, so maybe it doesn't mean as much as it otherwise would, but taking a pitcher's league apart with 41 doubles and 17 HRs as a RH bat does mean something.  But no worries, he'd never keep it up.  After all, Churchill declared him "not a prospect" in May of this year based on the opinion of scouts who should know, right?
He's got 48 doubles and 25 HRs this year in A+ and AA combined.  Yes, his BABIP is very high - but he's CRUSHING EVERYTHING and has been for 2 years.  At some point, that makes him a good hitter, right?   If he qualified he'd be leading the Southern League in batting average and OPS, is 8th in doubles there while having 200 fewer at bats than anyone ahead of him (300 in some cases)...
He's been amazing.  Again.  He's split his time evenly between 3B and LF, though he can play a pretty good 1B too.
If he does anything like this again in AAA...we're gonna have to find a place for him.  Seager and Catricala BOTH being 45-doubles guys, with Catricala adding 10 more HRs over Seager...that could be very, very welcome.
Then top it off with Nick Franklin and see what happens.
There are times when I see why the Ms might just wait for the kids to finish developing so that they can get doubles galore and plus power out of several glove positions to boot.
~G