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ESPN: Olney: Andruw Jones’ career in jeopardy
BBTF's Baseball Primer Newsblog — ESPN: Olney: Andruw Jones’ career in jeopardy Especially since he can now fit into an Art Fleming tuxedo… Scouts believe his defense is in serious regression, largely because … well, he’s gotten large. “He’s just too heavy to play at the level he used to play at in the outfield,” one scout said on Saturday. “He’s fat,” said another. ...All of this begs a question: If Jones is in the last days of a career which has included 371 homers and 1,131 RBIs and a lifetime average of .259, how would you gauge his chances for the Hall of Fame? I wrote in a news story Saturday that Jones ...

Olney On The Obvious: Andruw Jones' Career Might Be Over
6-4-2 — an Angels/Dodgers double play blog — No, really: It is strange, but true, that Andruw Jones' career is in jeopardy, even before he turns 32 years old. Even with the Dodgers restructuring his contract so that he is owed about $5 million for 2009, there does not seem to be any line of teams forming to make a deal for him. The Mets apparently are not interested, and John Fay doesn't think the Reds will be, either, even at a minimum salary. Jones looked awful last season, generating the kind of numbers that would earn most player an immediate ticket out of baseball -- he struck out 76 times in 209 ...

Olney's Latest: Andruw Jones
MLB Rumors - MLBTradeRumors.com — Buster Olney says that despite the Dodgers' restructuring of Andruw Jones' contract, serious regression in his abilities has resulted in minimal interest around the league. The Reds are not a good fit and the Mets aren't interested. Regression may be directly related to a weight increase. Olney writes, "There is not a lot of confidence in the minds of evaluators that Jones is a candidate for a body transformation... he has never been known as a workout freak... he has looked bad in winter ball this year, reports one highly ranked executive. The Dodgers will probably end up releasing him before spring ...

Andruw Jones Is Still Unwanted
FanHouse — by Pat Lackey Filed under: Dodgers, Reds, NL Central, NL West, MLB RumorsTowards the end of the week, the Dodgers announced that they'd be restructuring Andruw Jones' contract. The goal is to find a trade partner and since teams are already worried about his expanded waistline and his declining skills (in 2008 he had one of the worst offensive seasons by a non-pitcher that I can ever remember), the Dodgers wanted to try and relieve some of his huge contract and hope someone would take a risk on him. At this point, even that's not looking good. There was some thought that the Reds, who are ...

MLB Weekly: Chicago Cubs, Derek Lowe, Is Andruw Jones' Career Over?
Hip 2 Da Game — Andruw Jones: Jones had his contract restructured for 2009 so that he is owed only $5 million for next season. The Dodgers did this so they could try and trade Jones, but it doesn't look like there are many teams that are interested and his career may be in jeopardy. Yup, the same Andruw Jones who has 375 career home runs, 10 Gold Gloves, 5 All-Star appearances, and at just 31 years old looked like a shoe-in to hit 500+ home runs. Jones has always been slightly overrated as a hitter, but he is only a few years removed from his two best seasons as a pro. It's pretty shocking to see him fall off the map so quickly, but at the same ...

Thursday Morning Rangers Notes: Adventures In Absurdity
Baseball Time in Arlington — In a Wednesday evening SI.com blog entry entitled "Rangers emerge as suitor for Andruw," hot stove rumor monger Jon Heyman wrote that Texas "could emerge" as a potential landing spot for unemployed outfielder Andruw Jones, citing an anonymous American League executive ("If someone wants to resurrect their career, Texas is the perfect place"), the presence of venerable Rangers hitting coach Rudy Jaramillo, and the "just announced" move of Josh Hamilton from center field to right field as reasons why Texas could sign him -- operative word in that sentence being could. Now, Rich Lederer of the Baseball Analysts already launched a ...