one more thing: Jackson's plate discipline has been other-worldly to this point amongst qualified hitters, only Albert Callaspo and Carlos Santana have offered at fewer pitches out of the zone (full list) than his 20.6% figure, but that isn't really passivity at all, since he's swung at pitches within the zone at an extremely high rate (71.1%) no other player who has swung at less than 25% of pitches outside the strike zone has also swung at more than 70% of pitches in the zone; basically, he's doing everything right, but making contact when he swings (74.4% zone-contact, which would place worst in baseball)...an obvious caveat is SSS, but he's not being overmatched in terms of pitch recognition right now so, if his mechanics are screwed up and somewhat correctable, he can surely be a MLB-caliber player offensively to me, this is the new front office's first big litmus test in player development and i can't wait to see how it turns out