Frank Stampfl said something interesting on Tuesday's edition of Fantasy Baseball Today when he said that he was experiencing something like "prospect fatigue" with young hitters who have gotten called up this season. We've hyped them up every time and, almost without fail, they've let us down. Rookies as a whole are sporting just an 83 wRC+ throughout major-league baseball, matching the worst mark for a season since 2014.

I have my theories as to why hitters specifically are struggling so much with the jump to the majors – inconsistency with the strike zone, with the minors alternating between an automatic ball/strike system and a challenge system while the majors still use full-time human umpires certainly can't be making things easier for young hitters – but I don't think their struggles should cause us to just totally ignore prospect call-ups. We just have to keep things in perspective.