Comments on: Austin Jackson: Prospect Or Suspect?

By: Commentary On Reported Trade For Curtis Granderson

Commentary On Reported Trade For Curtis Granderson — Wed, 09 Dec 2009 01:54:05 +0000

[...] here was Austin Jackson – their best position playing Triple-A prospect. Now, back in August, I asked this question about “A-Jax”: Is he a true blue-chip prospect as the Yankees say, or, is he just a [...]

By: Checking in on the Yankees

Checking in on the Yankees — Wed, 05 Aug 2009 20:11:06 +0000

[...] Watching takes a look at Austin Jackson’s season thus far, and wonders if AJax is as major-league ready as Yankee fans want to [...]

By: MJ

MJ — Wed, 05 Aug 2009 17:42:28 +0000

Tcarda4 wrote:

@ MJ:
McCutcheon looks like the real deal, id love for Jackson to be this type of player. Interesting comparison, i never read or heard that before.

The two were compared to eachother over the past couple of seasons. I think most scouts felt like McCutchen was a bit more advanced and had more of the upside but that they had similar skill-sets in terms of speed, good OF defense, and not much ML power.

By: Tcarda4

Tcarda4 — Wed, 05 Aug 2009 15:49:53 +0000

@ MJ:
McCutcheon looks like the real deal, id love for Jackson to be this type of player. Interesting comparison, i never read or heard that before.

By: Evan3457

Evan3457 — Wed, 05 Aug 2009 15:31:44 +0000

Well, now I have to root like heck for Austin Jackson to make it with the Yanks, or be traded for someone more valuable than Jarrod Washburn, I guess.

By: Raf

Raf — Wed, 05 Aug 2009 15:20:43 +0000

Steve Lombardi wrote:

Raf wrote:
Having said that, I wouldn’t trade Juan Rivera for Washburn.
Would you trade him and Nick Johnson for Javier Vazquez?

Yep

By: bfriley76

bfriley76 — Wed, 05 Aug 2009 15:12:17 +0000

@ Steve Lombardi:
I’d take Juan Rivera, who, when healthy (an admittedly big variable), has been a valuable asset to the Angels.

I’ll echo the sentiments above that I don’t remember him being untouchable other than the Washburn trade (though I may be forgetting something), and I wouldn’t have traded him for Washburn anyway. (An aside…anyone see his Washburn’s numbers from last night? YUCK!)

By: Corey

Corey — Wed, 05 Aug 2009 15:12:14 +0000

Would you trade him and Nick Johnson for Javier Vazquez?
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even though he’s in the NL east facing line ups like the Mets and Nats, Javy is having a career year.

By: Steve Lombardi

Steve Lombardi — Wed, 05 Aug 2009 15:07:27 +0000

Raf wrote:

Having said that, I wouldn’t trade Juan Rivera for Washburn.

Would you trade him and Nick Johnson for Javier Vazquez?

By: Steve Lombardi

Steve Lombardi — Wed, 05 Aug 2009 15:06:11 +0000

@ YankCrank:Well, I figure since all the reports, in the past, of the Yankees looking for a stop-gap CF (like Mike Cameron) until Jackson was ready to play in CF, and the reports that suggested the Yankees might go with Melky and/or Gardner, and hope they’re OK, until Jackson was ready to play in CF, meant that the Yankees are (were?) booking on Austin Jackson as being their future CF and therefore was an untouchable in a trade…implied, of course…until recently where he got the official label of untouchable.