AUSTIN JACKSON RUMORS

Our Tigers preview continues with the outfield. With players back from injury, the starters are set. Brennan Boesch should be good after the thumb injury ended his 2011 season, Delmon Young’s oblique is healed up and Austin Jackson looks to put a tough offensive season behind him.

As the Tigers gathered to meet the media Thursday, the conversationalist with the most interesting news might have been Lloyd McClendon. The hitting coach described the changes in Austin Jackson's stance and hitting approach that the two have worked on in the last few days at Comerica Park.

The dreaded sophomore slump arrived for Austin Jackson, as his production dropped off notably from an impressive rookie campaign. However, it's not all bad news for AJax, as he saw some improvement in some important areas (overshadowed by a dramatic drop in a measure that varies wildly) and established himself as a top flight defender.

Tigers outfielder Austin Jackson did not win a Gold Glove Award this year, but he won a more relevant award.  He was voted the top center fielder on the Fielding Bible All Defensive Team for 2011.  The Fielding Bible awards are selected by a diverse group including statisticians, Baseball Info Solutions Video Scouts who study every game, sports writers, former MLB outfielder Doug Glanville and

What’s his Grade – I give Austin Jackson a “C.”  This is probably higher then most people might have thought but buried in Jackson’s low batting average were some optimistic signs.  Yes, he only hit .249 (I wonder who could have predicted that) but he turned some of those doubles into home runs a little [...]

Bottom 1: Austin Jackson called out on strikes against C.J. Wilson Bottom 3: struck out swinging against Wilson Bottom 5: struck out swinging against Wilson Bottom 7: struck out swinging against Koji Uehara Final Line: 0-for-4, 4 K Notes: Jackson’s golden sombrero during Game 5 of the ALCS was his second of the 2011 season, and the first by any player this postseason. He has...

Detroit Tigers outfielder Austin Jackson is having a rough postseason. Jackson was 0-for-4 in Monday's 7-3 loss to Texas that put Detroit in a 2-0 hole in the American League Championship Series. He struck out three times for the third straight game. In the postseason, Jackson has struck out 14 times in 25 at-bats. He has fanned at least onmce in all but one of Detroit...

Austin Jackson is started to hit. After a big year last year for the Detroit Tigers, Jackson got off to a real slow start. I haven’t watched enough of Jackson this year to say why- but the telecast during last night’s game blamed it on a non-aggressive approach. That’s interesting to me because I was able to train with Jackson for 6 weeks, and he was anything but non-aggressive...

Wow. What a week that was that was! Austin Jackson put an exclamation mark on a huge sweep for the Detroit Tigers over the annoying Indians on Sunday afternoon with a catch and throw double play to keep the tying run from scoring and Jose Valverde’s perfect saves streak intact at 37. When the dust from Kosuke Fukudome’s failed tag and score attempt eventually settled, some 3...

I had my first intense baseball conversation of the year yesterday. It was three guys tossing ideas around about prospects, the starting rotation, the bullpen situation, and everything else under the Tigers’ sun. It was awesome. One of the things that came to the front of my mind during the conversation was about Austin Jackson, his obscene 2010 BABIP and strikeout rate, and what...