I'll start off by saying I have no idea. Still, just going alphabetically through the roster, we saw Aaron Altherr's bat go from a triple slash of .236/.287/.399 in 2014 to .293/.371/.480 in Double-A in 2015. Maybe that's just an adjustment to level, but, Altherr actually hit better in Triple-A and scouts had some fairly glowing, if hyperbolic, reports on him. More impressively Altherr went from a guy with a fairly high K rate and Low BB rate to a guy with a virtual even split between the two (15.4% and 10.8%, respectively). I'll skip J.P. Crawford, since he's been a good hitter with a good approach all the way up the ladder.
What's in the water in Reading?
