and 7.4 WAR, tops on the team and fifth in the league, 0.1 WAR behind Mark McGwire and a full win ahead of Sammy Sosa in the year of the pair’s great home run chase. NLCS Game 6: Braves vs Dodgers game thread, Atlanta needs some Maximum Fried to close out Dodgers, Max Fried, Braves look to eliminate Dodgers in Game 6, The Daily Chop: Braves struggle in Game 5 loss to Dodgers, Talking Chop Podcast Episode 257: A two-run lead wasn’t enough. Get the latest news, stats, videos, highlights and more about left fielder Andruw Jones on ESPN. He explored a return to the majors in early 2015, but reports of interest from multiple teams failed to produce a guaranteed contract. He spent the next four years with three different teams before heading to Japan at age 35, and while he hoped for a return to the majors, he couldn’t find a deal to his liking after either the 2014 or '15 seasons. There’s the historic tendency of voters to undervalue defense (as was the case for one-and-done candidates Bell and Grich above, not to mention current candidate Larry Walker and—I fear—Rolen). • Complete 2020 Hall of Fame election results. “Don’t you care that the fans in Dodger Stadium have turned on you?” asked Simers. Jones repeated as BA’s Minor League Player of the Year (the second player to do so since the publication’s 1981 inception) and No. 1 prospect (the first since they began ranking them in 1991) in 1997. They’d lost regular rightfielder David Justice to a season-ending dislocated shoulder back in May and wanted to test the teenager before the Aug. 31 waiver trade deadline to set their postseason roster. From 1998 to 2007, Jones won 10 straight Gold Gloves, more than any centerfielder except Willie Mays. Jones is looking for more support from the BBWAA. For more information about Cookies and how to adjust them, please see our. Curt Schilling appeared on 60.9% of ballots last year which is the highest total of any holdover. Andruw Jones will remain on the Hall of Fame ballot for at least one more year. In Japan he hit a combined .232/.392/.441 with 50 homers in 2013 and ’14. Jones was no flash in the pan. His ability to come in and go back is excellent. Adjusting to a wider stance in which his head stayed lower and moved less, he broke out to lead the NL in both homers (51) and RBIs (128) in 2005, ranking fourth in WAR (6.7) and finishing a close second in the NL MVP voting behind Albert Pujols. By mid-August, he had been promoted three times, having blazed through the Carolina League, the Double A Southern League and the Triple A International League and debuted for the defending world champion Braves. Rodriguez, McGwire, Ramirez and Sheffield were all linked to prohibited performance-enhancing drugs during their respective careers.From 1995 (rookie seasons for Wagner and Mariano Rivera) through 2010 (Wagner's final season), Rivera led all relievers with 34.9 fWAR (Fangraphs' WAR Model). Towards the end of spring training, they traded Grissom and Justice to the Indians for Kenny Lofton and dealt Jermaine Dye, who had played 96 games with the Braves as a rookie in 1996, to the Royals for Michael Tucker. Schultz: Andruw Jones on Hall, coaching, Bobby Cox and a John Hart request By Jeff Schultz Feb 21, 2020 84 Only six outfielders in major-league history have won 10 … Caustic Los Angeles Times columnist T.J. Simers called him “the Tubbo” in print on multiple occasions. “He would read the pitch, anticipate where the ball was going to be hit and already be moving to that spot.”. In December 2012, following a disappointing second season in pinstripes, he signed a one-year, $3.5 million deal with the Tohoku Rakuten Golden Eagles of the Japanese Pacific League. As you can see, some of these players acquitted themselves reasonably well after 30, while others flamed out in spectacular fashion. Andruw Jones was a five-time All-Star and 10-time Gold Glove winner during his 17-year MLB career. He may need a few more years, but Jones is gaining steam on a ballot where several players — including Barry Bonds and Roger Clemens — have stagnated. New, 58 comments. Only three players in the Hall are below .260: Shortstop Rabbit Maranville (.258), first baseman Harmon Killebrew (.256), and catcher Ray Schalk (.253). Andruw Jones will remain on the Hall of Fame ballot for at least one more year. He batted .400/.500/.750 with 2 home runs and 6 RBI. In late May, he went on the disabled list for the first time in his career, losing six weeks to surgery to repair a torn meniscus and remove a cyst in his right knee, the all-important back knee in his batting stance, which lessened his ability to drive the ball. Due in part to his early retirement, Jones’ 62.8 career WAR isn’t quite as robust, ranking 13th, below 10 of the 19 enshrined centerfielders and 8.4 wins below the standard. "I was in the ballpark standing next to Andruw Jones talking to Willie Mays and Willie Mays said, 'Kid, you might be the best center fielder I've ever seen play,' " Pendleton said. Former Braves shortstop Rafael Furcal, a first-year candidate, did not receive a single vote. With his strikeout rate spiking from 21% in 2007 to 31% in that abysmal campaign, he finished at .158/.256/.249 with just three home runs and an astounding -1.6 WAR in 75 games. Both received 11.1 percent of the votes in 2018.Before his production rapidly declined upon turning 30, Jones produced MLB's third-best WAR from 1998-2007. But the lack of support he has drawn over the past two years proves most of the voters do not share the opinion Willie Mays once offered Terry Pendleton. His batting average slipped below .200 in the season’s fifth game and stayed there all year long. Wagner captured 16.7% of the vote in 2019 while Sheffield settled at 13.6%. It’s a visual understanding. Worse than Jones’ performance was the perception that he didn’t care, not that his showing up out of shape could have created any other impression. In one column, Jones continued to answer variants of “I don’t care” in response to a barrage of unflattering questions, including whether he was bothered by the boos from Dodgers fans. The only other members of this group not yet elected to the Hall of Fame are Rodriguez, Pujols, Mark McGwire, Ramirez and Ortiz.Pujols is still active and Ortiz is not yet eligible to be placed on the ballot. 1 overall prospect ranking heading into the 1996 season. He went to Japan with a traveling team at 11, one year before Hensley Meulens become the first Curaçao-born major leaguer with the Yankees in 1989, and at 15, played against Juvenile League teams featuring kids 16–18 years old. The Braves didn’t win the 1996 World Series, and he didn’t win the 1997 NL Rookie of the Year award, but along with Chipper Jones (no relation) and the big three of Greg Maddux, Tom Glavine and John Smoltz, he became a pillar of a franchise that was amid a remarkable stretch of 14 NL East titles from 1991 to 2005 (all but the '94 strike season). They paid a $46,000 bonus. Billy Wagner had even more reason to be encouraged when he received 31.7 percent of votes this year. • Complete 2020 Hall of Fame election results. Just create an account, no credit card required! In fact, only three up-the-middle players (Mays, Ken Griffey Jr., and Mantle) top his 434 homers. Braves missed out on a storybook ending to the NLCS in Game 5. The two players who ranked ahead of him within this span were Barry Bonds and Alex Rodriguez. “No,” said Jones. All Rights Reserved. "Is that not saying something? Jones’ candidacy does have points in its favor on both traditional and advanced fronts, and on both sides of the ball. McGriff falls off ballot among Braves' Hall of Fame results, SAN FRANCISCO - APRIL 8: Andruw Jones #25 of the Atlanta Braves bats against the San Francisco Giants at AT His precipitous decline likely cost him Hall of Fame election. Larry Walker Deserves Hall of Fame Enshrinement, but Faces a Difficult Road to Cooperstown, “Andruw was beyond his years, baseball maturity-wise,” Snyder told Baseball Americain 2006. Two others, Chipper Jones and Jim Thome, are eligible for the first time this year. “Andruw was always moving before the ball was even hit,” said Matt Kemp, briefly Jones’ teammate on the Dodgers but, before that, a centerfielder he studied. He then followed that up with a 41-homer, 5.6 WAR season in 2006. Jones spent three more seasons in the majors tacking a similar course as a part-timer, one with the White Sox and then two with the Yankees. Father Henry Jones was a catcher for Curaçao’s national team in the 1970s, good enough to play professionally—except that the island wasn’t scouted by major league teams at that time, and attending a major league tryout ended a player’s amateur status.