Dodgers To Release Andruw Jones On Thursday

OOOHHHH ooooohhhh OHHHHHH ohhhhh OHHH ohhhh. - ( That's the Tomahawk Chop)

I hope the Braves don't plan on him bouncing back like they are planning on Frenchy. They should get another outfielder plus AJ and see what happens.

As long as the Braves get another cleanup-type LF, I am completely in favor of bringing Druw back on a cheap deal to compete for the CF job with Blanco/Anderson/Schafer. Low-risk, high-reward, in my opinion.

I'm thinking he goes back to the Braves.

*LBS

Get him in ATL for the minimum. We all know he won't 50 HRs or win a gold glove again, but he can provide some OF depth. If he sucks, you're only out 400k. If he's decent,FW=genius.

"I'm sure he can hit 300"

Based upon what?

Andruw was at the Tech/Duke game with a Braves cap on

A sad day indeed for the Greater Los Angeles fastfood industry.

See ya Andruw. Fat loser.

I just don't understand how trade talks could have possibly fallen through from the Dodgers perspective. You know you're going to release the guy, all you have to ask for is for the other team to pay league minimum and take whatever the heck they offer. Now, the Dodgers will still pay everything but league minimum but they've missed out on a player. So it wouldn't have been a good player? Big deal, you never know what a player might do. Mike Piaza was drafted in the 62nd round. Just sayin. I don't know what the holdup was, maybe something I don't know about (obviously), but from here it looks like Ned Colleti did something stupid (again).

Andruw was at the Tech/Duke game with a Braves cap on

Posted by: Victor | January 14, 2009 at 08:26 PM

I should add, he was shown in the stands during the Georgia Tech vs. Duke basketball game wearing an Atlanta Braves hat.

Posted by: cheba63 | January 14, 2009 at 08:27 PM

Two sources, officially NOT a rumor:

Andruw has cart before the horse!
Prediction: Andruw hits .188 with 2 homers for Newark Bears.

"A sad day indeed for the Greater Los Angeles fastfood industry.

Posted by: abcrazy4dodgers | January 14, 2009 at 08:27 PM
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haha.

This wont happen but, what if he came back to Atlanta and hit 30 homers again with a 250. average. Does he get a decent contract or gets no love

If anyone takes him, he go to the minors. So it isn't even worth speculating what if.

His 07 season should have been a clue he was on the decline. Why the Dodgers even signed him is beyond me.

Speaking of the Dodgers... Does anyone else think Manny doesn't perform after he gets a new contract. He seems to have the ability to turn it off and on when ever he feels like it.

I would also like to point out that he was working out with Chipper and Mac this week at the Braves complex. He was on fox 5 news 2 nights ago saying he wanted to end his career as a Brave. I think it's pretty obvious he will be.

he's got phillies written all over him

"what the mccheaps should have done is kept him all year on the bench and not worry about his salary ever again, now the mccheaps are going to bring up his salary for six more years!!!! The dodgers dropped alot of payroll this year, cheap bastards!!! Were still waiting for some kind of type A free agent!!!

Posted by: KingMayan! | January 14, 2009 at 08:43 PM"

Every single one of your posts is a direct hit against the Dodgers. Just stop please. The Dodgers value the draft, they use the draft well. None of the Type A's make sense. No on Tex, Burnett, and CC kinda made sense but not too much.

If anything you should be upset about the Saito/Mota clusterbomb.

"Speaking of the Dodgers... Does anyone else think Manny doesn't perform after he gets a new contract. He seems to have the ability to turn it off and on when ever he feels like it."

When Manny turns it off, he still puts up really good numbers. I don't think any Dodger fan expects him to match the numbers he put up last year as a Dodger. He was just unreal with them last year.

LOL, if the Braves pick up Andruw, that's just more free money for him.

He still looked fat in the Dominican Winter League.

Good riddance to a lazy, underachieving, smiling bum.

I usually try to be gracious and thank a player for his contributions but, honestly, this guy contributed NOTHING to the Dodgers and got paid a TON of money.

Whoever signs him should make sure to add a weight clause in the contract so maybe they can get something out of him.

Whoever signs him should make sure to add a weight clause in the contract so maybe they can get something out of him.

LOL. Just reminded me of Bartolo Colon.

KingMayan is NO Dodger fan. He is what you call a BANDWAGON fan.

Bandwagon fans are not wanted by ANY team nor are they appreciated by ANY REAL FAN.

KingMayan, go root for the Orange County OF Anaheim OF Southern California OF North of San Diego OF South of San Francisco Angels. Or whatever their name is.

No one in Dodger Land will care.

Serg Rush,

Look, we get it, you don't like the guy. No need to repeatedly post the same sentiment in slightly different ways. Anyways, while Andruw did show signs of struggling with the bat in 2007, he was still above replacement level offensively and among the best CF in the league defensively. Per FanGraphs his production was still worth $14.8 million in 2007. Anyways, he doesn't even need to get back to his 2007 level to be a worthwhile pickup for the Braves. All he really needs to do is show some life against LHP. If he can post a .700-.750 OPS against LHP (even with his struggles last year he was at .631) then he's better than any of the Braves other options.

rumor has it he has found a job as a vendor at a collegiate sports arena. good to see he's at least trying to do something productive.

Andruw did the Dodgers a HUGE favor orchestrated by Boras with the deferred payment. Without that the Dodgers would be SOL on signing Furcal, Blake and potentially Manny.

abcrazy4dodgers had the post of day with "it's a very sad day for the greater LA fast food industry."

There's no way he signs with another team. Maybe this go round he will actually listen to Terry Pendelton. .250 25 80 and helping Schaffer learn how to play center.

Glass half full:

Braves sign him to a minor league deal for major league minimum salary. He bombs in Spring Training and is released.

Glass half empty:

Braves sign him to a major league deal for major league minimum. He hits .275 in Spring Training with a couple of homers and gets every ball hit between the foul lines.

Makes the big club in April and Bobby keeps running him out there until Memorial Day, when, hitting .190 with six doubles and 2 HR, he's released.

"Umm....no. Blake and Furcal were signed long before Andruw's contract was redone. Also, the Dodger's payroll was something like 80 mill before the contract was redone WITH Furcal and Blake. We still had a ton of money to spend before it."

And who are they going to spend that money on now? Rotation is in shambles, bullpen has taken a step back, and Manny isn't signed.

I'm not bandwagon fan, if I was I wouldn't even talk about the dodgers, cuz as you well know the dodgers have been crap for 20 yrs!! The problem here is fans like Die hard dodger fan that still go to dodgers games and support them when the owners don't respect the fans, all the fans just want is a world championship team, not just trying to win the crappy NL west!! And when did the MLB draft become the NBA or NFL draft, most of those draftees are crap and will never make it to the Majors!!! Geeks!! If the mcCheaps would own the Phillies(champs) they would get a rude awakening!!! Those fans don't play!!

It would be an awesome signing if we can get him for less than $2mm.

At least, the angels got a real owner, even if they don't get to sign anybody they still got a wayyyyyy better team than the dodgers!!!!! I just wish arte moreno could be the dodgers owner!!

Ever think maybe he's dropped the weight since then and that dropping that weight might help him get that bat speed back?

I haven't seen him in the Dominican League, but I did see him last season. All the bat speed in the world isn't going to help him if he can't see the difference in ball rotation between a fastball and a slider.

Ever think maybe he's dropped the weight since then and that dropping that weight might help him get that bat speed back?

I haven't seen him in the Dominican League, but I did see him last season. All the bat speed in the world isn't going to help him if he can't see the difference in ball rotation between a fastball and a slider.

Posted by: Serg Rush | January 14, 2009 at 10:00 PM
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And you know this as a fact how? It couldn't have been that he was cheating to try and catch up with fastballs because he no longer had the bat speed to catch up to them any other way?

If that's really the issue, then it just sounds like he needs a contact or Lasik surgery...There are at least 2 other players on the Braves I can think of off the top of my head who had similar problems that they had treated. Fixing his vision did wonders for Diaz's career, while the jury is still out on Frenchy.

nixa,

You and I talked about that different look in Jones' swing while he was on the Dodgers earlier. Do you remember? I still saw that in the video of him. He looked physically better (as far as his weight) but I'm not convinced that his swing will ever recover. I know that he has always had a different-looking swing but it still looks differnt to me.

Also, you Braves fans are aware that even Pendelton attempted to help Jones last season aren't you? He refused to change anything about his approach last year. The dodgers coaching staff tried everything to get him to turn it around.

Also, just because Jones wants to be a Brave doesn't mean that the team will welcome him back with open arms. I think they will though, but he will have to swallow his pride and accept near league minimum.

Does everyone on here have ADD??? How quickly we forget that 2 years ago Mr. Jones had the best season of his life and should have won the MVP! Yes, obviously he's fallen far since then, but didn't all you so-called "Braves Fans" root for Andruw all thoes years when he was winning gold gloves and helping us get to the post season every year? Does anyone remember him being the best CF since Mays for most of his career thus far???

WTMF??

I'm THRILLED to hear that we might have a chance to get him back (and at a f&ck cheap salary)! Ya, so he his -.103 last year and stunk up LA, SO WHAT! I saw him on the sidelines of the G-Tech game in that Braves hat and almost sh!t, I got goosebumps! I can't wait to see #25 back out roaming CF....whenever/ IF ever that happens.

GOODLUCK AJ! I'll be rootin for you this year. I hope you prove the haters wrong (and me right) by having an incredible comeback this year... Just lay off the burgers, don't drop that shoulder, lay off the high fastballs!

Andruw is one of the last guys I would ever think used PEDs. He never had a defined body and he never really bulked up in the offseason. He just slowly added a few pounds every year, and it wasn't muscle for the most part. Honestly, he strikes me as the sort of person that always had a high metabolism until he hit his mid to late 20's. Once that started slowing down, he did nothing to change his workout or eating habits, and the pounds slowly started to build.

Also, I think the toll his body took playing CF the way he did almost every single day for over a decade is really overlooked by most. His style of play led him to make far more diving catches than anyone else, and doing that day after day really seems to have taken a toll on his body. The fact that he was doing it at higher weight than other CFs definitely didn't help things either.

I think one other thing that has to be considered is that Andruw might just be older than we actually realize. I don't know how easy it would be to get a fake birth certificate in Curacao, with its ties to the Netherlands, but considering what Andruw did at such a young age and how quickly he fell off, maybe he's just a couple years older than we realize.

As for his swing, it actually looked better in the video, but he was also just taking BP as opposed to in game swings. Still, it looked like he was staying back a little better, actually keeping his balance, and cutting down on his forward stride to a degree. Those are the things he really needs to work on (other than the obvious stuff like bat speed and pitch recognition). It'll be interesting to see if that can actually translate over to ST games.

the same time the Mitchell report came out he's decline started happening!! One of the side affects of stopping a steroid cycle is Fat gain!!!

Nixa, you know nothing of roid's!!

i think he looked like he was in decent shape in that video that was posted before.. hopefully he's motivated now more than ever.. his balance looked terrible on there though but i guess one positive is he was attempting to hit the ball to the right side (on his own free will rather than being forced by coaches which he probably never was anyway)... he was hanging around the right guys though if he wants to get his hitting back up to par... hopefully he'll listen to chipper and mccann

KingMayan,

You clearly have no idea what you're talking about. The Mitchell report came out after the 2007 season. Andruw's decline had started by the 2006 all-star break. He also posted his best years after testing for PEDs started. He didn't just suddenly start getting fat either. He's been getting pudgier and pudgier for years and years now. This isn't a new thing. Braves fans were complaining about his physique for a long time.

I'm a amateur bodybuilder I think I know what I'm talking about!! And for the Mitchell report, Mitchell started investigating around that time!!! Also, there all type of "peds" (prohormones, dianabol, test, etc.)!!

Jones' contract was no bueno.

If the Braves bring Andruw back it shouldn't be for anything more than the minimum $400k. How could you justify giving him 7 figures when you wouldn't even pony up a couple extra million to keep Smoltz around.

Also, several people have mentioned that Jones would be a better CF option than anything the Braves currently have in their system....Seriously? Did you see him last year? As long as that person plays solid defense and hits .250 they would provide more than what anyone would guess Jones would do. I don't care if he looks fit now, because that doesn't necessarily translate to him being able to return to old form and actually make some contact.

I say sign him, but for nothing more than a 4th outfielder. Then, if he doesn't pan out, you've lost nothing.

"I know a lot about PEDs myself. I go to a technology/science based school and I've learned the chemistry behind them and I understand how the different PEDs work."

Posted by: nixa37 | January 14, 2009 at 11:10 PM

Really? Why don't you explain then? And what school is that?

And why did he stop taking HGH if it still isn't tested for?

Well your saying he was a skinny kid with a good metabolism!!

Really? Why don't you explain then? And what school is that?

Posted by: bobby cox is my father | January 14, 2009 at 11:12 PM
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Its really none of your business and I don't like giving out information about myself on the internet. Suffice it to say, its one of the top few in the country. If you really want to know, why don't you post your email address and I'll send you an email from my school account.

As for explaining how PEDs work, you'd have to specify which PED first...different ones work in different ways.

besides, i was being sarcastic. my point is that not only are there many different PED's out there, that act in different ways with different people. it'd be hard to look at most people (bonds being an exception) and tell whether or not they've used PED's before.

well i believe a few things need to change for the braves to turn it around, bringing andruw back doesn't hurt us but doesn't help us tremendously either as everyone said already, but i strongly believe bobby cox needs to go... im sick of hearing "oh they love playin for him" when it doesn't seem that way at all and i still dont believe he deserved a contract extension... but back to the andruw topic he can be in the best shape of his career but that's not gonna help him hit a baseball if he can't see it and is too arrogant to receive help from pendleton. I believe thats why many braves fan were happy he was leaving when they heard he refused help and now he is crawling back to us hoping we accept him with open arms.

There is alot of people that think old school MLB players didn't take steroids, well steroids have been around a long time! Don't be fooled!!! Even babe ruth couldve took steroids, I'm not saying he did but if he wanted to he could!!! The difference is there better roid's out there now, back then they did just more harm than build muscle!!!