Conor Jackson
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"Conor Sims Jackson" is a former American professional baseball outfielder. He bats and throws right-handed. He is 6'2" and roughly 225 pounds. His father is actor John M. Jackson.

After graduating from El Camino Real High School in Woodland Hills, California in 2000, Jackson proceeded to have a stellar collegiate career at the University of California, Berkeley/University of California (Berkeley) as a third baseman. He developed a reputation for a patient batting eye and led the Pac-10 with a .538 OBP in . Jackson was drafted in the first round (19th overall) of the 2003 MLB amateur draft.

Jackson switched to the outfield shortly after being drafted. In his initial debut with Yakima Bears/Yakima of the shortseason Northwest League, he Batting average/batted .319 with a league record 35 Double (baseball)/doubles. After his minor league debut, Jackson successfully climbed the minor league ladder. After fielding only .964 in the outfield in the minors, he was moved to first base, where his defensive struggles continued.

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I rushed it a little bit. I couldn't get a good grip on it. It was a bang-bang play, a 50-50 shot. We had talked about it right before that if it was a ball to me, I was going home no matter what. If he was staying I wasn't going to turn two. I knew I was going home the whole way, I just couldn't get it quick enough.

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I should have caught it. It was one of those plays where I knew it was going to take me off and I knew it was going to be a tag play, and I just got crossed up a little bit and kind of rushed it.

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I knew I was going home the whole way, [I] just couldn't get it out of my glove quick enough. I probably would have had him out with a good throw. It would have been a bang-bang play, but it just got stuck a little bit.

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Last year I wasn't comfortable when I got put into that situation. I had been comfortable wherever I'd gone until then.

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I've still got a ways to go, but it's a learning experience. You're going to be put into situations you've never been put in before and you learn from them.

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I probably would have got him out with a good throw on a bang-bang play, but I couldn't get a good grip on it. It's one play, and I'm not really going to let it get to me.

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Spring Training doesn't go on the back of your baseball card, but this is one of my plans for the year ... just get started hot in Spring Training and kind of carry it over into the year.

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I just feel better and a little more comfortable. I got my feet wet last year.

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I'm just going to keep it simple, and keep the game plan I got here with.

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