According to Bruce Levine of ESPN the Chicago White Sox have signed outfielder Andruw Jones to a one year contract worth $500K with incentives that could bring the value up to $1.5 million dollars.
Levine writes that the move was done to soften the blow of losing Scott Podsednik to free agency, but that they currently don’t view Jones as a starting outfielder.
The 32-year-old Jones hit .214 last season in 281 at-bats for the Texas Rangers last season, and slugged 17 homeruns and drove in 47 runs, mostly as a designated hitter.
It doesn’t happen often, but Jones completely fell of the baseball map once he reached his 30th birthday. Before that he was considered one of baseball’s best outfielders. When he was 29 years old, Jones hit 41 homeruns and drove in 129 runs while scoring 107 for the Atlanta Braves. The four-time All Star led the NL with 51 homers and 128 RBI the season before that. He has also won ten gold gloves in his career.
His salary takes quite a momentous fall from $14.5 million dollars a year ago.
I has absolutely no interest in Jones going into the off season, but for $500 K, I would have to believe he would have been a solid right handed bat off the bench for the Mets. I’m thinking the Mets will pay a lot more and get a lot less from their eventual fifth outfielder.
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I agree with your final analysis. Jones for $500G is a steal and would have been an upgrade over Jeremy Reed and Cory Sullivan. Huge missed opportunity for Omar here.
WOW 500 grand.The guy almost won an MVP has hit over 50 homers in a season.And Omar couldn’t offer him 600 grand and a chance to win the left field job.Even if he came off the bench,he could also fill in for Beltran in center.I hope Omar knows what he is doing.I hope he isn’t in Puerto Rico smoking Delgado’s degenerate hip.
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Andruw is a bum now. He fell fast and hard. I don’t expect he’ll get too much incentive money.
We paid more than that for Reed and now he’s taking us to arby. I’ll gladly pay 500g for 17 homers and 50 RBI in 250 at-bats.
and a washed up clearly steroid user.