{"id":2523,"date":"2011-01-10T09:20:09","date_gmt":"2011-01-10T15:20:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/thegoldensombrero.com\/wordpress\/?p=2523"},"modified":"2011-01-10T09:23:54","modified_gmt":"2011-01-10T15:23:54","slug":"the-golden-sombreros-top-50-prospects-43-brett-jackson-video","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/thegoldensombrero.com\/wordpress\/archives\/2523","title":{"rendered":"The Golden Sombrero&#8217;s Top 50 Prospects: #43 &#8211; Brett Jackson (Video)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/thegoldensombrero.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/11\/chicago-cubs-brett-jackson-top-prospect.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-1939\" title=\"chicago-cubs-brett-jackson-top-prospect\" src=\"http:\/\/thegoldensombrero.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/11\/chicago-cubs-brett-jackson-top-prospect-300x168.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"168\" srcset=\"http:\/\/thegoldensombrero.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/11\/chicago-cubs-brett-jackson-top-prospect-300x168.jpg 300w, http:\/\/thegoldensombrero.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/11\/chicago-cubs-brett-jackson-top-prospect.jpg 480w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">#43 <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.baseball-reference.com\/player_search.cgi?search=Brett+Jackson&amp;utm_source=direct&amp;utm_medium=linker&amp;utm_campaign=Linker\" target=\"_blank\">Brett  Jackson<\/a><\/strong> \u2013 Chicago Cubs<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">OF<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">DOB: 8-2-88<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">ETA: 2012<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><!--more--><\/p>\n<p>The 21-year old Jackson is one of the most athletic players in MiLB, and projects as an everyday CF in the bigs.\u00a0 He was able to reach Double-A in 2010 after being drafted 31<sup>st<\/sup> overall in 2009 out of Cal-Berkeley.\u00a0 At Double-A he was able to slash .276\/.366\/.465 with 25 hits for extra bases in 228 AB\u2019s.\u00a0 Known as a speedster, Jackson stole a combined 30 bases between his two stops in 2010.\u00a0 More importantly, he has demonstrated advanced plate discipline that will allow his bat to stay in the top of most orders and certainly for the Cubs.\u00a0 While his power is <a href=\"..\/archives\/1938\">still developing<\/a>, Jackson went for extra bases an average of once every 10 at bats in 2010, and as he grows more and more accustomed to wood, a handful of 20-jack seasons may be possible.<\/p>\n<p><center><object classid=\"clsid:d27cdb6e-ae6d-11cf-96b8-444553540000\" width=\"480\" height=\"385\" codebase=\"http:\/\/download.macromedia.com\/pub\/shockwave\/cabs\/flash\/swflash.cab#version=6,0,40,0\"><param name=\"allowFullScreen\" value=\"true\" \/><param name=\"allowscriptaccess\" value=\"always\" \/><param name=\"src\" value=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/v\/IOSSYc8zW2k?fs=1&amp;hl=en_US\" \/><param name=\"allowfullscreen\" value=\"true\" \/><embed type=\"application\/x-shockwave-flash\" width=\"480\" height=\"385\" src=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/v\/IOSSYc8zW2k?fs=1&amp;hl=en_US\" allowscriptaccess=\"always\" allowfullscreen=\"true\"><\/embed><\/object><\/center><br \/>\n<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>#43 Brett Jackson \u2013 Chicago Cubs OF DOB: 8-2-88 ETA: 2012<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[15,1300,6,9,13,10,14,1616,775],"tags":[1309,1658,260,3463],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/thegoldensombrero.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2523"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/thegoldensombrero.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/thegoldensombrero.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/thegoldensombrero.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/thegoldensombrero.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2523"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"http:\/\/thegoldensombrero.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2523\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2526,"href":"http:\/\/thegoldensombrero.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2523\/revisions\/2526"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/thegoldensombrero.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2523"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/thegoldensombrero.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2523"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/thegoldensombrero.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2523"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}