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    NY Times: Andruw Jones ready to help Yankees

    Interesting read in today's Times about Andruw Jones and this upcoming season with the Yankees.

    http://www.nytimes.com/2011/02/25/sp...nkees.html?hpw
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    Re: NY Times: Andruw Jones ready to help Yankees

    Is this from the Onion?
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    Re: NY Times: Andruw Jones ready to help Yankees

    Steroids? Nah. Jones ate himself off that HoF career arc. Towards the end of his stint in Atlanta, he would sweat gravy on a hot evening.

    (And there's a lot of those in Atlanta during besbol season...)

    Plus, he was known to socialize. A lot. A ballgame was merely a prelude to the rest of the evening. You could tell that even though his body was in the batters box, his mind was a gazillion miles away.

    When the Braves parted ways with his buddy Raffy Furcal, that was supposed to be the final wake up call. Jones slept through it.

    In his prime, though, I can't imagine a better CF. His ability to get a jump on a ball and run down anything gap-to-gap was other-worldly.

    And I'll always give him a big thumbs-up for his testimony during the shake down of the Gold Club.

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    Re: NY Times: Andruw Jones ready to help Yankees

    I remember watching him play one time at Durham (A+), the year he jumped to majors. Prospects stand out at that level and we saw a lot of future major leaguers play there, but not one ever came as close as Jones to looking like an adult playing amongst children. That game he hit two dingers, and threw a guy out at third (one bounce) from the warning track in right center. One word could describe him back then - Freak.
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    Re: NY Times: Andruw Jones ready to help Yankees

    Quote Originally Posted by SunDeck View Post
    I remember watching him play one time at Durham (A+), the year he jumped to majors. Prospects stand out at that level and we saw a lot of future major leaguers play there, but not one ever came as close as Jones to looking like an adult playing amongst children. That game he hit two dingers, and threw a guy out at third (one bounce) from the warning track in right center. One word could describe him back then - Freak.
    I saw Bo Jackson have a game like that once, hit a double, HR, threw 2 guys out, stole a base.


    And that was against the Bash Brother A's

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    Re: NY Times: Andruw Jones ready to help Yankees

    Quote Originally Posted by 15fan View Post
    Steroids? Nah. Jones ate himself off that HoF career arc. Towards the end of his stint in Atlanta, he would sweat gravy on a hot evening.

    (And there's a lot of those in Atlanta during besbol season...)

    Plus, he was known to socialize. A lot. A ballgame was merely a prelude to the rest of the evening. You could tell that even though his body was in the batters box, his mind was a gazillion miles away.

    When the Braves parted ways with his buddy Raffy Furcal, that was supposed to be the final wake up call. Jones slept through it.

    In his prime, though, I can't imagine a better CF. His ability to get a jump on a ball and run down anything gap-to-gap was other-worldly.

    And I'll always give him a big thumbs-up for his testimony during the shake down of the Gold Club.

    "Both of them, Your Honor."

    Indeed.
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    Re: NY Times: Andruw Jones ready to help Yankees

    Bump.

    The Jones downward spiral continues.

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