The sound of Jake Fox’s bat sounds crisp, and as old timey scouts like to say, it just sounds right. He’s fooled me plenty when it comes to figuring out if the guy got enough of a pitch to jack it out of the park, and he has a nice fluid swing.

As a prospect people were very excited about his power, and this year as a 25 year old he tore up the PCL hitting .421 in Iowa.

He’s not going to amount to much. I love Jake Fox. I love his swing. I love the way the ball jumps off his bat, but he hits very few line drives (evidenced by his small sample sizey 9% Line Drive rate) and 20% of his at bats end in strikeouts. He has looked good in limited playing time this year, he even knows how to put on his mitt(!), but he has no defensive position, and as evidenced by a frusturating loss to the Tiggers where the defense let the Cubs down, he can’t be on the Cubs.

He’s a DH, nothing more, and he has only one tool, albeit a very dangerous one. He can hit with the best of them, but he is not valuable to the Cubs.