White Sox acquire Edwin Jackson from D-backs

[DMelt36]

ESPN Chicago reporting that Hudson and prospect David Holmberg to Arizona for Edwin Jackson

[Capt. Serious]

Looks like he could be flipped to the Nats

Twitter / Tim Brown: Edwin Jackson has been tol ...

[Lefty]

If Jackson is flipped it means Hudson and another high-level Sox prospect have essentially been shipped off for Adam Dunn, which fills one spot in the lineup yet creates another hole in a starting rotation that is already less Jake Peavy and is starting to see Freddy Garcia get hit a ton. That's questionable at best.

And if the Sox are unable to to unload Jackson, that means the team traded away a salary-controlled pitching prospect for a guy that has had one dubiously solid season and is due more than $8 million next season. That's bad.

[hsvj60]

I hope we keep Jackson and don't give him up for Dunn cuz I''ma done wit his azz...
sorry my bad I always have problems with typos and just plain bad grammer not to mention I'm long winded

[Lefty]

Originally Posted by Got teeth? Keith doesn't.

It's really not that bad, not that good either. Hudson more than likely isn't going to pitch any better than Jackson and I'm a lot more comfortable with Jackson down the stretch this year over Hudson, and he has a bit of playoff experience too. Cooper likes him and he could fix him up just like he did with Thornton.

Yeah, Cooper could fix him, but right now all we have to go off of is what Jackson has done recently and for his career, and going by that trading a salary-controlled prospect for an older, high-salaried player in Jackson is just not a smart move, especially if the Sox can't flip him and are stuck with Jackson for the rest of this season (i.e. a close divisional race) and next.

[Lefty]

Originally Posted by hsvj60

I hope we keep Jackson and give him up for Dunn cuz I''ma done wit his azz...

Wait, give who up for Dunn?

[waldo7239117]

Originally Posted by Lefty

Wait, give who up for Dunn?

I think he's talking about Edwin Jackson.

[hsvj60]

I wanna keep EJ I think this kid is going to be real good and we have the man that can make pitchers out of guys who throw hard in Coop

[BigSoxHurt35]

EJ has never had a good pitching coach or a constant with the same team. Don can help him! They even said the same thing on MLB network

[Lefty]

Originally Posted by hsvj60

I wanna keep EJ I think this kid is going to be real good and we have the man that can make pitchers out of guys who throw hard in Coop

Well that's all speculation at this point. Going off of the numbers (which are real and not speculative), Jackson is a sub-par pitcher making too much money. He isn't very good at controlling the things a pitcher has direct control of on the mound (K/BB rate, HR rate, etc), and has given no indication that he is improving in those areas.