He’s still a very good prospect. For a while there earlier in the year though, I could’ve seen him making the jump to great (hitting) prospect, the way Snider did in his age 20 season. That was probably a little optimistic.

Lambo put up basically the same numbers as Mike Moustakas did last year in the Midwest League (with a higher OPS). Moustakas is hitting .267/.307/.433 in a level lower than Lambo. I’m not sure Lambo was truly ready for Double-A, and he needs to improve in pretty much ALL phases of hitting, let’s put this into perspective against the number two overall selection from the same draft class.

Sorry I keep comparing Lambo and Moustakas (for well over a year now), but they are both California prep lefty hitters from the same draft class. One went second overall and caught smoked marijuana cigarettes in junior high, so his makeup issues dropped him to the fourth round.

But he’s not great. His FIP is 8th in the league, more than half a point behind people like Marc Rzepczynski. Ryan Pope, who was rated something like #28 in John’s list of Yankee prospects leading into the year, has the same FIP at the same level in the same park. Now, Pope was probably better than people thought, and Rzepczynski isn’t a bad pitcher either, but neither of them are exactly stars. In other words, I agree with you when you say that McAllister (and the others) have a solid shot of becoming #3-4s.

it’s typically not a strong move to counter with his low BAA.