I'm surprised the A's ditched Allen so quickly but, honestly, I always thought Barton would win the job back at some point this year. I think it's generous to call Allen streaky at this point, he's played 109 games in the majors and has hit .205/.291/.375 which is pretty awful. It's not a lot of games, but even by the eyeball test Allen doesn't look like he can hit major league pitching.

I'm no scout so I can't say for sure that Allen can't make the jump to MLB but personally I'm not worried that he's going to catch on with some other team and become a middle of the order threat.