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with my compadre Matt here.
Jeremy Reed IMHO is an excellent counter-example of the golden LH OBP machine who comes up and is just missing that certain this or that -- in Reed's case, power, like Matty says, and also some reflexes. Reed had to cheat at the plate a fair amount.
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The fact is that Ackley could fail in the majors, and if so it wouldn't look a lot different from Reed's failure...
M's fans can take solace in the fact that Reed was never AS pedigreed as Ackley is (no UNC coaches saying he was the best there ever was) and Reed's swing was never as leveraged as Ackley's is.
Reed's swing was fairly static, as we said at the time, where as Ackley's positively breathes life.