If he continues to handle AAA pitching well, I’d give him a call up in September, but only for the slightest taste of the majors. I wouldn’t give him many AB’s. I don’t want to give him a big taste of failure, which I think is likely given how quickly he’d be jumping from AA to AAA to MLB. So, I think the benefit to him of experiencing the majors and having the MLB coaches look at and work with him would be minor. So if it doesn’t happen, I don’t think it is a big deal. It’s not like the September call up would be an important step in his development.

If he gets a pitch early in the count that he likes, he’ll swing. If he doesn’t like it, he’ll take it. Seeing his final at-bat was really all you need to see about his approach. He got down 0-2 and took the next four for balls, two or three of them very close, against a hard throwing lefty no less.

Kinda easy to see why he doesn’t strike out much either, he widens his stance a little with two strikes and shortens his swing to make contact.

I might go to the game tomorrow as well.

As soon as Mike Barnett gets his mitts on him he’ll be flailing at the first pitch