Was considered to be a future batting champ with some power. Sure he has a nice BB/K but if the power doesn’t develop we may see another Sean Burroughs here. Also reports are that he is struggling playing 2nd.

I’ve seen Mier play twice this year. He doesn’t look comfortable at the plate. I can’t say I’m surprised here as the AStros have a history of bad picks. But he looked much more comfortable the one time I saw him last year in the Appy League.

Frazier is somewhat disconcerting because of his age. But he could just be having a Lars Anderson kind of year.

Ackley will be fine. Even when his BA was in the toilet the first month of the year he was having good at-bats. It wasn’t like he was Greg Halman up there hacking at anything. He was just hitting line drives directly as people. Look at his numbers for May & June - some of those line drives were falling. Personally I think he could have spent a month or two at High Desert and then a promotion, but he can work things out at the AA level. Plus he’s probably suffering from culture shock being in Jackson, TN.

Anybody seen him play/follow him closely enough to know what the problem has been with his production? I certainly didn’t expect a .697 OPS. It looked like he might pick it up a bit numbers-wise a couple of weeks ago, but is on another cold stretch, 3 for his last 18.

Never been a huge fan of his. Jio would be second, but his ability to play SS well keeps him among the top 100. Ackley and Hicks, I have no worries about what-so-ever.

Not worried about Ackley, should stick at 2B and as long as he does that the bat should be good enough to make him at least a solid starter. Talk to me if he moves off, but I’d expect his bat to spike a bit if that happened.

Am worried about Jio, because this season matches up ominously well with the predraft scouting reports. He might be young for the league but this is a really, really bad year. He’s obviously still a prospect, but he’s nowhere near the Grade B-esque status that he’d need to top 100 for me, and I think he’s sitting in that Grade C+ range, a talented enigma who could go any number of directions.

Am concerned about Frazier, but I think he’s a major league contributor in some way in the future due to some positional versatility and his power. He’s too close to the majors to throw out entirely, but not sure if he’s going to project better as solid regular or a super-sub type.

Not worried about Hicks, strikeouts up but production up from last year, and last year’s production wasn’t bad. Be cautious, yes, but still has that nice blend of tools and skills.

Any hitter posting a nearly .400 OBP in AA straight after college is not struggling. His April was absolutely dismal. However, that was mostly due to an unjustifiable BABIP. The most worrying thing has been the abscence of power but I am willing to give him a little slack on it. This is the first year adjusting to hitting with wood bats full time. He might have to rework his swing at the cost of some extra K but the potential remains. West Tennessee is no hitter’s paradise either.

I would not be that worried about Hicks at this point either. His age is still appropriate for the league level and he has kept up his walk rate. The increase in Ks is worrying but I think part of his problem is he is too passive in his approach right now. I wonder if he would be better served to be more aggressive at the plate in the future. At higher levels, pitchers are not going to be so inaccurate and his swing is not so sound that he can afford to be that passive.

Mier is in slightly worse shape due to the near complete abscence of power. The lack of HRs and 3bs indicate he has not been driving the ball. The number of doubles is not really encouraging either when you consider that he has some and A-ball defenses are far from stellar. At least he has maintained a solid K/BB ratio. Even when factoring his BABIP of .280 regressing to lets say .330, his line will be pretty empty.

Fraizer is the most worrying. The power is still there but the swing has found new holes. As a 24 year-old with no certain defensive position and no exceptional offensive upside, he needs to find his form quickly.

For me, I’m still surprised that the small sample size of a short season debut caused everyone to forget the concensus from months or weeks earlier that he was an overdraft.

I want overdrafts to succeed, and I love it when teams show some moxy, but what were people fixating on the preseason? The scouts didn’t love him, or he’d’a fit in with the first rounders. The stats were from a small sample size.

for all the reasons already listed.

i have also seen Taylor play and I am unimpressed with any thing about his game except his physical size. He could be one of those great tools guys who can’t play.

I think he started like 0 for 30 or something like that but recovered and tore it up to get his batting average up over .300 at one point in early May. Then he stunk the rest of May and was solid in June and so far in July has been decent.

While I know this is a bit silly if you look at overall #‘s since the early slump (taking out 30 AB’s) he’d be hitting .289/.400/.456. The OBP would probably be lower because I wasn’t sure how many times he walked during that early slump. So while maybe expectations have calmed a bit, there’s not a lot to necessarily worry about with Hicks yet either.