At Lehigh Valley, Williams has been pretty much the same hitter that he was over his three-and-a-half years in the Rangers farm system. He doesn't walk much (just 19 times this season), and his strikeout rate ticked up this season after ticking down last season. He has made no great leaps as a hitter, not yet anyway, and given his talent, he may not have had to. But his progress as a pure hitter would seem less concerning than this: Much of the attention paid to Williams at Lehigh Valley was because his manager, Dave Brundage, benched him three times - twice for not running hard out of the batter's box, once for sliding into home plate after hitting a game-winning home run.