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Hope there are more where those came from.
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The 5-walks-in-5-AB's type stuff tell us, as y'know, that Ackley's strike zone is diamond-hard. That he's not getting anxious because the previous 2 hours have been weird. That no matter what angle you throw at him, he's still got an idea up there.
I love the consistency of his zone in 9,734 different scenarios, and love the whippy authority in his bat. He's seeing 900 different blitzes and loving all of 'em.
Nobody's saying that a big AFL is a guarantee, but *this* big AFL is exciting, for me. Ackley had a few question marks and those are precisely what he's rebuffing.