At some point, players need to have a chance at playing in the major leagues. For those that aren’t hyped as top prospects, they need to play especially well in order to overcome preconceived notions about them.
There is no one here that suggests that Otto Kemp is a top prospect. He has rarely, if ever, cracked top twenty lists around the game when discussing the Phillies’ top names. Yet what has Kemp done?
He’s hit.
Does this match up with the scouting reports on him? Not really, but plenty of major league rosters are littered with players that weren’t top names prospect systems, yet forced their way onto major league through sheer determination and performance.