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I expect him to be named "most boring at-bat" sometime in 2012.  His box score is gonna be full of walk-single-walk-K-groundout lines...and his OPS+ is gonna be something like 110, 115 while hitting nothing but singles.
I look at his minor-league line and see a guy messing around with his swing and his timing and still managing to be one of the top 2B in either of the leagues he played in.
Ackley's gonna tinker for a lot of his career, I think, but he's ALWAYS gonna walk.  When he gets his swing the way he likes it and his control of the zone to be appreciated by the refs, look out.
His rookie year may be tilted more toward Ks than walks as umps break him in, but he'll get their zones down, take his lumps and then we'll have fun. :)
Even if the at-bats are "boring."
~G