Prospect Promotion Incentive Ep. 46: Vibes-based Prospecting

He was actually the Golden Spikes winner.

That's Daniel Jackson out of Georgia University.

As I previously mentioned, he was the SEC Triple Crown winner last season with 32 bombs.

He hit his average was 379.

He had 87 runs batted in.

That was good for a 168 WRC plus in the SEC.

I'm not sure how specific the WRC plus is.

I would imagine that's NCAA in general, how that was positioned, but his slash line and everything's looking pretty similar after a 13 game start to his low A career.

He's already put three balls out.

He's struck out as much as he's walking and he has a 155 WRC plus.

So, Might just be a hot bat that's staying hot after his collegiate season wrapped up.

But the profile here is a catcher who probably won't stick at catcher, but has the athleticism to play the outfield.

Hit tool concerns, but a really fun, interesting blend of power and speed.

Rockies fans might be thinking I just described Hunter Goodman, maybe minus the speed portion of all of that.

And I think the Rockies saw something that worked in that profile.

They've been able to get everything you'd think that we used to think was possible out of a Hunter Goodman and maybe saw that in Daniel Jackson.

after his SEC pedigree really shone through in his platform year.

So that's my comp for Peach Day.

And I think the Rockies are viewing him as a slight comp to a Goodman, who they've had a lot of success with developing, shockingly, in the Rockies org.

It's Goodman's all the way down.

Jackson, I think his two standout tools are raw power and speed, which is the speed part is the part that is weird for a catcher.

So I would feel comfortable almost immediately referring to him as an outfielder.

The other note, I had to Google this.

You learn something new about baseball every day.

WRC plus for college is determined at the conference level.