I'm not expecting an All-Star, but he was an adequate shortstop who is more than sufficiently tooled for his present 2B assignment. He made great contact as an MiLBer until his K% rocketed as a big leaguer.

Ordinarily, this is the point where I offer an answer but I don't really have one. Watching a replay of his homer last night provoked the question, because he turned on a 97mph fastball from a pretty good pitcher like it was absolutely nothing. He's at .299/.390/.522 line the last month with a noticably diminished K%. Maybe that's the key?

I don't know. Fangraphs likes his defense so far and he's on track to be a 2 WAR player without his bat truly even heating up. That's sort of what I expected, I guess. But there are flashes where it looks like he could give us something in the .280/.350/.420 range.