Connor Jackson!

I really like this move. Like, more than I thought I would by a minor move like this. I've always liked Connor Jackson as a player. Has some power, walks a fair bit, doesn't strike out much, plays average-ish defense in a corner. He's a useful player, and a candidate for a fluke awesome year if only because he's in his prime and puts the ball in play a ton. Will he push us into the playoffs this year? Probably not, that fate pretty much rests on the shoulders of our savior, Brett Anderson, and I don't think thats going to happen this year. But we get to see what Jackson is made of this year, and hopefully he's a healthy part of our domination plan for next year. If Taylor continues to suck, Jackson probably will not be a bad player. If Taylor turns out to be awesome again, we flip Jackson in the offseason/next year or keep him around as a fantastic, albeit expensive, bench guy. We got a potentially very useful corner bat on a team that has almost no offense. And we gave up a decent minor league relief arm for it. I mean I couldn't have drawn this up any better, bought way low on a guy who is likely to rebound, gave up a piece that we have about 3 billion other equivalent/better options than. I love it, fantastic start to the hotstove season.