2010 Minor League Roundup

[Ace]

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Good points. Thoughts on moving Jackson to the pen despite success as a starter?
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If they think that is how he would be most helpful to the team AND that he would be more helpful than others, I don't see a problem with it. I don't think he has anything else to prove in the minors really, so I see no problem with promoting him.. I just hope they aren't planning on t his being a permanent move which I'm 99% sure they aren't.
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I read somewhere that his success this year has been built on something like a really low BABIP and a really low home run rate, or something like that. Things are not sustainable.

But what about his previous two years, where he was awesome in every respect? I don't think he's a future star, but I agree - he looks like a future starter to me.
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Whatever happened to the days when teams brought up young pitching prospects by having them first work out of the pen then move to starting?
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Those days were replaced by towel exercises, pitch counts, and inning limits.
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It's really amazing how sharp that shift has been - you almost never see pitching prospects being brought along as relievers first. Or, at least not nearly as much as you used to see. Wasn't it as recent as 15 years ago that that was the norm?