As I said in the other thread, I've watched a few of the Rainiers games on video, and every time I see Ackley he's stinging the ball somewhere. Last night he got a lazy pitch, whipped the bat out and wristed a screamer over the RF fence in about half a second of pulled power.
His eye ratio is 1.25. His isolated walks is .140+. His babip was .236 last I checked. I wasn't sure if he'd be able to have that fast a bat with wood when I saw him in college, but he does. I honestly wonder if it's too fast for him right now and he's not QUITE able to slow it down enough to get more base knocks, instead topping the ball or pulling it foul. But he uses the whole field - the guy is GONNA hit.
It's been over a year now and he's only had a couple of months of real hitting. Some of it is absolutely luck. I dunno what the rest is, and I don't think the Mariners are gonna call him up until they know what it is either. A 2 week hot streak would be a great way to arm-twist the Ms into giving him his Safeco ticket, but Ackley hasn't put one of those together yet.
He's a 4-for-5 with a double kind of hitter, or a 1-for-2 with 3 walks sort. He hasn't had those games this year. He'll start to get them, and then they'll promote him.
And I'm sure it will be conveniently after his arb deadline. So here's hoping we can keep winning with a dental floss and baling wire lineup til then, because Smoak and the Rejects is an interesting band name, but a treacherous offensive philosophy.
~G
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