Had this version of Austin Jackson shown up after last July's trade deadline, there's a chance we'd all be looking back on 2014 a bit differently. Hell, had Abraham Almonte shown up after last July's trade deadline, there's a chance things go better than they did.
As is, they did not—and the Mariners got a version of Jackson I don't believe anyone had seen at any point in his career. In the two months down the stretch, during a time in which the Mariners desperately needed a legitimate major league center fielder, they received .