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I understand completely that you can be an AFL success and a MLB failure.  Not gonna argue that.  But I have to disagree a little that failure is easily discounted.  Stock can and does fall with a poor AFL performance.  
 
If Ack were flailing and failing miserably maybe you are level headed enough to toss it out but lots of folks would be wanting to reevaluate him.  If say for example he had tripled or quadrupled his strike out rate I think Jack Z would be on the phone wanting someone to sit Ackley down in front of an eye chart pronto!
 
I guess I just have trouble with the paradigm being that success is disregarded or at least treated indifferently while I know failure matters when it comes to rating prospects.  I hope kids aren't sent to Arizona being told.  “It doesn’t matter if you do great, just don’t suck.”
 
I’m personally having a hard time not getting excited because he’s not doing anything radically outside of his skill set.  If it were say, Balentien, getting 15 walks in 50 at bats you could chalk it up to some wild arms in the desert.  It would be easy to dismiss as an outlier because he’s never shown that to be in his skill set.  But with Ackley I don’t see him doing anything GREAT that he hasn’t at least done really GOOD already.  Am I missing something?