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different about Ackley vs. those other guys you listed above is that Ackley isn't merely posting top of the league numbers like the guys above.  He is doing something MORE than destroying the league.  I can not even come up with an appropriate adjective for what Ackley is doing to the AFL.  I agree that all those guys above are destroying the AFL, but Ackley is a standard deviation ABOVE those guys.  And while the stats for those guys may or may not carry over, and Ackley's may not carry over completely to the majors.  I think it does tell us something that Ackley (or anyone) even has the ability to put up the numbers he is.  We are out of the realm of luck or merely being on a hot streak like Culberson is having.
If Ackley was just merely destroying the AFL (heck even the once golden prospect Brandon Wood is doing fairly well down there this year) I would agree with you, that it is great to see and it keeps me excited about Ackley, but is no garuntee.  But in my mind this is different and I have in fact upgraded Ackley's potential ceiling in my mind after seeing this.  Yeah his probability of hitting his 25%, 50% and 100% projections may not have changed, but the projection itself has take a fairly large shift up IMO.
Where as I once saw Ackley as a very good shot at an all star 2 hole hitting, OBP machine 2bman (Pedroia ceiling), I know see him as a very good shot to being an All star 3 hole hitting 2bman, still more predicated on OBP than SLG, but a legitimate 3 hole hitter all the same (Utley ceiling, or ::shudder:: Morgan ;) ).
Of course I tend to be WAYYYYY too optimistic on these things anyways :)