Tyler Kepner of the Times does a nice profile on Yankee super-prospect Austin Jackson.  A tidbit:

"There’s nothing about Austin — defense, arm, base running, nothing — that gives me any doubts that he’s going to be a good player one day," said the Class AAA hitting coach Butch Wynegar. "I just hope nothing happens at the big-league level where they yank him out of here premature. I’d love to see him stay here all year, see what kind of year he has and go from there. Because he’s not there yet."

The rest of the piece seems to be a knock on the Yanks' proclivity of drafting two sport stars - CJ Henry and Drew Henson - and having them leave baseball to focus on their other sport.  Jackson was offered scholarships to play basketball, notably at Georgia Tech, who offered him the opportunity to be a two sport star ... and he's a pretty good basketball player:

"He’s an unbelievable athlete," said the Yankees’ Brett Tomko, who started the season with Scranton. "They went to work out at a basketball gym on the road, and supposedly, he put on a clinic, reverse dunks and everything."

Rest easy, folks ... Austin Jackson's a baseball player ...

In fact, Jackson’s first love is baseball. He wears No. 24 because his favorite player as a kid was Ken Griffey Jr. He took swing after swing, day and night, in a lighted batting cage his father, Albert, built when he was 12 ... 

Jackson still lives at his parents' home in Denton, Texas, in the off-seasons; and his father seems tickled by the baseball education his son has received the last few years.  His knowledge of his favorite game has grown every year.  

"When he comes home now, he talks all about baseball," Albert Jackson said. "He can sit down and watch it, tell me about pitches.  It's little things, like how to read the pitcher.  He's become a good student of the game."

Now of course, Mr. Jackson needs to learn to cut down on the strikeouts and how to hit for power.  Here's his line through 47 games at Scranton:

Team	League	AVG	G	AB	R	H	2B	3B	HR	RBI	TB	BB	SO	SB	CS	OBP	SLG	OPS
SWB	INT	.349	47	175	27	61	10	3	0	23	77	20	49	11	0	.425	.440	.865

I think the Yanks are doing the best thing for him right now ... leaving him in Scranton to learn, call him up in September, and then give him a shot at a starting job in NY next spring.  That fact that his OBP is .425, thanks to his 20 BB's in less then 200 AB's somewhat mitigates my concern over his K's.  That's nearly a K every three AB's. That number has to go down, and I think it will as he gets even more comfortable at the plate.  

SI.com is now reporting that Yankee outfielder Xavier Nady has only partially torn a ligament in his right elbow, rather than completely tearing it as originally feared.

This is good news, as it means that Nady can come back sometime in late May or early June, if according to the SI.com report, he successfully rehabs the elbow in weeks to a month. 

The interesting thing in the SI article was this:

Nady could return in a DH role. The Yankees are very concerned about DH Hideki Matsui, whose knees continue to trouble him after offseason surgery.

Does this mean that they bring Nady back sooner just to DH, and let him rehab the elbow with the team, or does he get shut down and simply do whatever exercises needed to rehab the elbow?