Turn on your television on the right day, in the right inning of the right game, and Junior Lake is a perennial All Star. In those brief moment when Lake is able to live near the ceiling of his talent, he’s electrifying, but outside of his 2013 debut with the Chicago Cubs, those sights have been rare.
Mike Newman nailed the book on Lake back in early 2012 as part of a prospect profile for FanGraphs, writing “When scouting Junior Lake during the Southern League playoffs, his game was part car wreck, but I simply could not help but be enamored with his tools.