Rays' Josh Lowe: Raking, whiffing in Triple-A

Lowe is hitting .310/.399/.538 with 12 homers, 21 steals and a 32.5 percent strikeout rate through 74 games with Triple-A Durham.

He's been drawing a good amount of walks (12.9 percent), but Lowe continues to strike out at a horrendous pace (32.6 percent). The last couple weeks are particularly illustrative of Lowe upside and issues, as he's hit .367 with a 1.078 OPS and eight steals over 13 games (49 plate appearances), yet he's struck out 23 times in that span. As impressive as Lowe's production has been in Triple-A over the last two seasons, his swing-and-miss tendencies continue to damage his potential of developing into an everyday major-league outfielder. The 20-20 upside is tantalizing, but we've seen other players with similar profiles fail to realize it before.