Originally Posted by
auyushu
Well, depending on how big the K rates we are talking about are yes. Guys who K over 30% of the time in the minors almost never make it, and it's rare to see guys go from huge K rates to being really good K rates. Now in between there of course you have a wide variety, not uncommon to see guys in the 20-25% k% range drop their K rates a bit once they hit or move towards the majors (and of course go the other way). You'll see some prospects lower their K rates a bunch moving up levels once and a while, but it's rare. Corey Seager for example dropped his 8% or so from low A to the majors, but he had fantastic contact rates his entire way through the minors. Having crazy high K rates and poor BB/K rates generally leads to prospects translating poorly to the majors, prospects that have that rarely make it.
Davidson at least has a good walk rate, so he has the patience angle, but he needs to show some contact skills by next year or I think he has very little shot of making it.