SATURDAY: Jackson cleared waivers and has been given his unconditional release, according to Clark Spencer of the Miami Herald (Twitter link).
TUESDAY: The Marlins have designated righty Edwin Jackson for assignment, the club announced. His roster spot will go to southpaw Mike Dunn, who will be activated from the DL for the first time this season.
Jackson, 32, signed on with Miami on a league-minimum MLB deal over the winter. He had previously been released by the Cubs, who are still paying out the final season of the four-year, $52MM contract he inked with Chicago before the 2013 campaign.
While the 14-year veteran had solid results last year working out of the pen, he’s scuffled to a 5.91 ERA in 10 2/3 innings thus far in 2016. Jackson has managed just seven strikeouts against six walks in his eight appearances on the year.
Meanwhile, the 31-year-old Dunn will be looking to bounce back from a tough 2015 season and forearm issues earlier this year. He was one of the game’s more effective left-handed relievers over 2013-14, when he compiled a 2.89 earned run average in 124 2/3 innings, with 10.0 K/9 against 3.6 BB/9. Dunn is in his final season of arbitration eligibility.
Could we see a reunion with the Braves ???
fastball never went with the head. Some of it (a lot) probably due to pressure from his agent, but this guy should have been a reliever from the start. He never had command withing the zone and his slider, the only secondary pitch that could have been called MLB average to plus.
Take that, his really good fb.. That would have “probably” gone up a few ticks and hit the upper 90’s and early on? been a really decent setup to closer, instead of a back end starter Joe Kelly type. A real shame.
He’s still fairly young, maybe Boras will allow the conversion and jackson hasn’t thrown enough pitches to be a decent reliever, but tougher now with all those miles.
At this point couldn’t hurt.
Some contender will likely pick Jackson up since the Cubs are still responsible for the bulk of his remaining $12.4+M salary in 2016. He pitched pretty effectively as a relief pitcher in 2015. He was off to a decent start this season before landing on the disabled list in mid-April. Six of the seven runs he allowed in 2016 were given up in his last two outings since being re-activated. As long as Jackson passes a physical, he ought to be snatched up by a team in need of relief help.
Perhaps the White Sox will take a flyer on him with their recent bullpen woes. Don Cooper is familiar with him as his pitching coach when Jackson was a fairly decent starting pitcher for the South Siders back in 2010 and 2011. The White Sox also boast a top notch trainer in Herm Schneider who has a knack for keeping players and pitchers off the D.L.
Is he better than Ubaldo?
Name me one person who isn’t.
LA Angels, say hello to Edwin Jackson
Angels bullpen this year could work
Jackson fired Boras for cause a few years ago.
In 2010 or so Boras literally never extended his clients. Jackson was pitching lights out in the Tiger rotation. Ilitch/DD inquired and got predictable Boras spin.
The huge trade, also involving Scherzer, Granderson, Austin Jackson, Ian Kennedy and others, sent AJax on a gypsy Odyssey: 4 teams in less than 2 years as each team monetized him for less as FA approached.
Boras asked for too much, predictably. AJax ended up,after a short term pillow contract, with the Cubs where he bombed. By then he realized Boras had harmed him by not extending him in Detroit. Tigers lucked out by getting multiple Scherzer years instead.
Interesting take on AJax as reliever from the beginning. As they say all relievers are failed starters, but in retrospect it makes sense.
Never been part of that “all relievers are failed starters” crowd and it looks like as baseball gets more modern? It’s becoming more antiquated than I am and have been around this game since the early 60’s.
My feeling, is that if you have a guy, like Jackson who already can throw in the mid 90’s, has 1 decent to plus secondary pitch, yet FAILS to learn the basics of that 3rd pitch? he’s a potential power reliever and needs to be developed that way in the minors, especially with the amount of power arms we see nowadays thru the draft and International signings.
Yet we see teams supposedly making them piggyback starters in the minors to “give them innings”, or having these kids that can/could throw 95-98 for 1 inning 3-5 times per week, going 3 innings at a time and the velo is down each inning. Talking about decent kids with workable secondaries, not just ones I watch on MiLB, but ones go and see at local games here (Tigers FSL team in Lakeland).
I know enough about the game from decades as friends with some people inside organizations years ago that what they do now is just different and to me? It doesn’t make sense. It’s like these guys have their collective minds this said person is a SP and BY god they are going to burn up all 4y they have (until he’s rule 5 eligible) forcing him to be a sp, regardless of whether or not it’s 100% obvious these talking heads are wrong.
I agree that hard throwing pitchers with only 2 solid offerings should be relievers, but teams want to find the next Verlander, and will seemingly sacrifice years in the minors with hard throwing pitchers, trying to develop them into starters. I think E Jax is a special case though since he was brought up and sent down several times with the Dodgers. The Rays did try him as a reliever, but he didn’t do so well right away so they gave up on him as well. He was brought along too fast in my opinion, 22 IP age 17, 104.2 IP age 18, 170IP age 19 including 22 major league innings. I believe that stunted his development the most.
Pirates has turned around Bumbs before
Hope you know that this article talks about Edwin Jackson not Austin Jackson
Jackson has a decent arm and plenty of gas left in the tank… With some minor adjustments on his mechanics, and considering that any team who picks him up would only pay him the league’s minimum, I think it will be a safe bet for the Angels should the make the move and pick him up… The team has some serious problems in that bullpen that are yet to be addressed… They blew a 7-run lead yesterday in just two innings, and it will get worst before it gets better….
No surprise that Edwin Jackson cleared MLB waivers. Now any team can sign him for the pro-rated MLB minimum salary with the Cubs still on the hook for the bulk the remaining $12,492,500 owed him in 2016.
Twins should sign him sense they lost Casey fien
Jackson good fit for Angels since they won’t have to pay him much.
Marlins bullpen is a joke and he still couldn’t cut it.
I’m hopeful they’ll kick the tires on Peralta, A Oliver, and Thatcher who have all done more than several of their dreadful bullpen arms