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Featured Prospect - Austin Jackson; from minorleaguebaseball.com
Topic Started: Mar 22 2006, 05:45 PM (56 Views)
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Austin Jackson tried not to laugh when asked how he thought the Georgia Tech basketball team might have fared this season had he been playing hoops in Atlanta rather than gearing up for his first professional Spring Training at his home in Texas.
When it was pointed out that Tech finished at 11-17 this season and near the bottom of the Atlantic Coast Conference standings, Jackson was sympathetic but offered no apologies. He is, after all, in the early stages of what he hopes to be a long and productive career with the New York Yankees. So, even though Georgia Tech offered him something very few will ever have the chance to wrap their hands around -- an ACC basketball scholarship -- having New York choose him in the eight round of last season's draft was something from which he simply couldn't walk away.

"I think they could have been in the Sweet 16 with me," Jackson said with just a hint of bravado in his voice. "I think I could have stepped in and helped them out. I'm not saying they weren't a good team already; they're just pretty young. I watched them quite a few times this season. You know I had to watch some college basketball.

"But I don't think I ever did the wrong thing. I think I made a good choice and the right choice. If I went to college, there's always the possibility you can get hurt. If I go and play baseball, it's one step closer to being in the Major Leagues. A couple of schools offered me baseball scholarships but they knew I was going to school to play basketball or going to the Minor Leagues."

Jackson, who turned 19 last month, has been excelling as a baseball player for nearly a decade and had been the subject of many a scouting report leading into last season's draft. The Denton, Texas, native is as skilled on the basketball court as he is on the field, though, and many scouts felt the lure of basketball was too great to take a chance on drafting Jackson.

The Yankees, however, had been following Jackson closely for some time. And though they realized there were might be issues if they drafted him, they went ahead and grabbed him in the eighth round, paying him a bonus in excess of $750,000, an unheard of sum for someone drafted so late.




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I know its never a good Idea to get excited about a guy who has only played rookie ball, but i'm really freaking excited about this guy. I like Cox, Tabata, Hughes, and Clippard alot, but this guy is probably my favorite prospect. An absoloute steal for a 7th round pick. If you think about it, everything he is showing already is what we're supposed to expect from CJ Henry. And I think its safe to say he passes Strider's name test with flying Colors. "Now batting, Number...,the Center Fielder, Austin Jackson."
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Mar 23 2006, 01:20 AM
An absoloute steal for a 7th round pick.

8th.
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amit
Mar 23 2006, 10:21 AM
HomieYank
Mar 23 2006, 01:20 AM
An absoloute steal for a 7th round pick.

8th.

Yeah, but its a leap year so you take one away. Plus you gotta think of inflation.
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Mar 23 2006, 05:30 PM
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Mar 23 2006, 10:21 AM
HomieYank
Mar 23 2006, 01:20 AM
An absoloute steal for a 7th round pick.

8th.

Yeah, but its a leap year so you take one away. Plus you gotta think of inflation.

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