The 32 year has not been heard from in some time after eating himself out of the majors, and I suppose performance enhancing drugs could have some play in as well, but I refuse to admit that. Andruw Jones was a brilliant player when he came up during the Braves World Series appearance as a young prospect. He continued to rack up gold glove after gold glove and solidified the braves Center Field position for years. There was nothing better than watching Bravos games with the Jones boys batting back to back bruising the ball over the park. Jones fell, and fell hard and the Braves cut ties with him. He signed a monster 30+ Million dollar deal with the Dodgers and forgot how to play baseball and looked like Mo Vaughn at the plate with the weight he put on.
He is now playing ball for $500K (plus all the money the Dodgers owe him) for the Rangers. Last night the man went old school Andruw J and belted 3 HRs. Granted this could have just been a lucky game, or a fluke...but its promising to see him start to get back on track and get some more confidence at the plate..
Hopefully he can continue to pick it up and get some more starts for this Rangers squad...and return to a respective level. He is only 32 and deserves to resurface so we can all remember what an unreal talent and CF he once was and hopefully can be again.
You should always be wary of a man that can't spell his own name.
ReplyDeleteThe problem with Andruw Jones "reviving" his career is that it will never happen. It can't happen. Because what made him so great was his uncanny ability in center. Toward the end of his Atlanta career, while most didn't want to admit it, he was pretty lousy defensively. While he was a pretty decent power hitter, even in his prime he was never a top tier hitter ( I guess he was during the 51 homer season, can you believe that was only 2005? seems like forever ago).
ReplyDeleteThe allure of Andruw Jones as a fan favorite was watching him track back from about five steps behind second base to the track to catch a ball nonchalantly and wing it back in with that side-winding underhand toss. And that is something we will never see again.
Andruw Jones is gonna hit 30 homers playin for a million dollars. Best value in baseball.
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