So far, Jason Heyward has awesome stats. But you can't help noticing that he's struck out 10 times in seven games, a ratio that may eventually lead to some struggles. And those strikeouts, as you might expect, are largely the result of swinging at breaking balls in the dirt. FanGraphs has the details:

That is a striking trend. Of the 18 non-fastballs below the zone, he has swung at 12 of them and not made contact with one. On non-fastballs in the zone, on the other hand, he has 16 swings and just one whiff — and actually swings at a smaller percentage of non-fastballs in the zone than below the zone. So it does look like Heyward is having quite a problem laying off those pitches, and that results in tons of swinging strikes.

At just twenty years old, even a player as phenomenal as Heyward is going to have a transition period ... In 31 PAs so far Heyward has an encouraging three HRs and five walks, but also ten strikeouts. So it looks like a big part of this transition period might be these low breaking balls and changeups that will result in a number of swinging strikes. And he will only see more of these pitches going forward if he continues to struggle with them.

Well, yes. We might expect an adjustment period, and these major league pitchers do throw nuclear sliders and yellow-hammer curveballs and assorted other nasty things. But minor league pitchers throw pretty good stuff, too. There's a reason that MLE's work reasonably well. The Braves are playing the same game today that Heyward played last summer in Jackson, Miss., and Lawrenceville, Ga. A somewhat harder version of that game. But it's the same game, and Heyward's a year older. He'll make some adjustments this year, and a few more next year, etc.

There's absolutely no reason to think he won't be good this year, and eventually great. It's mostly a question of whether that takes a few months, or a few years.