The power and walks are the nice part. He was a bit unlucky earlier in the season on BABIP and now he's getting a bit lucky, but he's also drawing walks and hitting for power.
I think maybe there's a bit of ground to be explored between "not hitting 50 HRs at Daytona" and "not being on pace to hit 15 HRs at Daytona." and of course he's not working on his development at all in the minor leagues. it's as simple as once he had power, and now he doesn't. You are really hammering the absurd overstatement pretty hard. Probably a good idea when you don't have much of a real case to make.
You'd think he'd be putting up at least an .800 OPS in the minors then. The walks are nice, but the power is still unimpressive. Maybe it blossoms in the next few years, maybe it doesn't.
If we can somehow miracle together yet another decent rotation, and we don't start handing out jobs to terrible players for little reason (Stewart, Olt, etc.), then I like our 2015 chances quite a bit.
Most of us our 1990s-bred Saberfans and it's never going to feel quite right how much defense and baserunning actually do matter to total value in 2010s baseball.
It's only 29 PAs, but I'm very happy to see Alcantara's contact rate at 73%. If he can keep it around there, there's just no way for him not to have value. The offensive standards for his positions are too low and he adds a bit of baserunning value too.