Bubba Starling had a less than ideal start to this season. That maybe sugar coating it too. Starling slashed to a line of .129/.217/.194. He looked dreadful.
But I have reasons to believe he is improving at finding his stride in AAA.
Let’s use his 2016 season as a reference point. You may recall he had an undeserving promotion to AAA in the middle of last year. This came after he hit for a wRC+ of 64..
As expected, AAA did no good for him. His strike out walk went up, his walk rate went down, and his LD% dropped.