He does have Muaer's reverse BB/K (more BB than K)...but he's noticeably more patient that Super-Joe IMHO. I don't know if he's going to hit the ball as consistently hard as Mauer does when healthy...but...he'll almost certainly be more healthy than mauer a larger portion of the time.
As for whether the HRs will more than cancel that BABIP diff. or less than cancel...it depends on how many dingers he hits and how many times he Ks.
I picture Ackley as an 90 K/80 BB hitter in full time play if he hits his midline MLB projection and that comes with 25 dings. If Ackley has a .320 career BABIP in the bigs (not an unreasonable projection for a hard line drive hitting relatively speedy outfielder with a good eye) he'd need 29 homers to hit .320 full time (assuming 90 Ks). So that would make him a .315 hitter or something. Ichiro will out-BABIP him for career...of that I'm almost certain. But if he has an Ichiro-class BABIP, he'll EASILY outhit Ichiro (very very unlikely)
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