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Nothing unusual at all for a GOOD hitter (if that's what he is) to show a funky change in his EYE as he goes from AAA to the majors.
The scouting reports, etc. etc. are so advanced in the bigs, that a hitter's game warps under the pitchers' decisions whether to challenge them or not.
Ryan Howard, for example, walked 40-50 times in the minors with a poor EYE, but then got to the majors and started walking 100+ times with a good EYE.
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Peguero lowering his K rate... I imagine he's staying within himself now, bearing down, taking the challenge seriously .... simply elevating his game to the level of his opposition.
Lots of guys evolve quickly upon getting to the ML game, getting to the coaching, the video, etc.  Peguero is, so far, one of them.
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We see this constantly:  saberdudes assume that you take a AAA player, take his 15 stat categories, make them all a notch worse, and that's what you'll get in the majors.
Then Kerry Wood or Tim Lincecum get to the bigs and stop walking people, or Ryan Howard gets to the bigs and his whole game morphs, and they can't understand why.
Projecting a AAA player is definitely not as simple as ---> assuming his MLE stats across the board.  This is one of the areas in which the pro's and the 'net rats talk past each other.  
Did the M's have the "right" to promote Michael Pineda?  The stats said no.  The pro's said yes, and .... THASS UNPOSSIBLE!  Pineda is better in the AL than he was in the PCL!  CAN'T BE!  
Saberdudes are a long way from getting ahold of that idea.  MLE's get overemphasized.
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