Lansing Lugnuts Scouting Report - August 2010

I was in Lansing ten days ago for two games. Here is my scouting report on those games. Kevin Ahrens hit the ball hardest of any hitter over the weekend. Ahrens was hitting a lot of line drives, some were caught, some were hits, but in general he hit the ball hard. Defensively he was fine, he has a good third-baseman's arm. Sal Fasano thinks Ahrens is getting his head into the right place, I can't say for sure but he has been on a hot streak lately.Justin Jackson was up and down as Sal Fasano mentioned. He will have one at-bat where he looks uncertain and hit a weak ground ball and another where he hits the ball hard. His batting practice was not very good, he didn't hit the ball well and just as I thought his power was gone he hits a couple of deeper fly balls in the game. The one thing that Justin appears to be better at is not chasing the breaking ball. When I last saw him in Lansing two years ago he would chase the breaking ball down in the zone and now he se...