In just 28 at-bats this season, the 24-year-old Jackson has struck out an eye-popping 16 times in eight games. To anyone that's followed his minor league career, it's hardly shocking that he's swinging and missing at an alarming rate.In 211 at-bats (53 games) in 2009, between Rookie Ball and Single-A, Jackson struck out 56 times...and it's gotten progressively worse. The next season, Jackson struck out 126 times in 128 games between High-A Daytona and Double-A Tennessee. One year later in 2011, 138 Ks in 115 games in Tennessee and Triple-A Iowa.Last season, the numbers reached a new record for futility—158 Ks in ...
Umpires are used to getting heckled from fans, questioned by managers and players and generally are the target of a lot of abuse over a nine-inning span.When does it go too far?For class-A umpire Mario Seneca, it was when the Daytona Cubs (Class-A, Florida State League) music intern Derek Dye chose to play an organ rendition of "Three Blind Mice" following a missed call at first base.The song set Seneca into a rage, EJECTING the music intern and the PA announcer and yelling from the field to, "Turn the sound off for the rest of the night." Cubs manager Brian ...
Though not exactly Dwight Howard-esque, Cubs SP Ryan Dempster has seemingly gone from fan favorite to Public Enemy No. 1 in a matter of 96 hours.Cubs GM, Jed Hoyer, along with President of Baseball Operations, Theo Epstein, publicly announced last week that the longtime Cub would accept a trade to either the Atlanta Braves or the Los Angeles Dodgers, with LA being his No. 1 option.Monday afternoon, MLB.com's Mark Bowman reported that the Cubs and Braves had agreed to a trade, with 22-year-old SP Randall Delgado heading to the North Side for Dempster. After every media outlet in the country ...
