Andruw Jones to play in the city of overpaid center fielders
December 6, 2007
Andruw Jones and the Dodgers have agreed a 2-year, $36 million deal.
Overrated, overpriced center fielders playing for L.A. teams:
Juan Pierre (Dodgers): 5 years, $44 million
Andruw Jones (Dodgers): 2 years, $36 million
Gary Matthews Jr. (Angels): 5 years, $50 million
Torii Hunter (Angels): 5 years, $90 million
(All contract info from Cot’s Baseball Contracts)
Yikes.
Does the Andruw Jones deal mean the Dodgers have correctly given up on Pierre and are admitting he’s a horrible major league baseball player? Or does it mean that either Andre Ethier or Matt Kemp will be blocked from playing every day for another season?
Given how the Dodgers have operated the last few years, it’s probably the latter. A Jones-Kemp-Ethier deal could be scary, assuming Andruw Jones plays like he did before a miserable 2007 season. Throwing Pierre in that outfield makes it have the potential for disaster.
Are there any other overpriced center fielders the L.A. teams can sign?
Gilbert
Ben
December 7, 2007 at 1:26 am
I think it’s time for the return of Jim Edmonds! $48 million over three years seems like it would match the Moreno thought-process.
December 7, 2007 at 10:43 am
And the then there are the Padres, without a single decent outfielder. Maybe the LA area wants to share?
December 7, 2007 at 1:13 pm
Hawaii, you want Gary Matthews? I’d give him to you for cheap if I could!
Matt, don’t say such things … they could happen.
And he’s not a center fielder, but David Eckstein’s still out there.
December 9, 2007 at 5:53 am
Isn’t Eckstein an improvement over the blank that the Angels currently have at short?
(Seriously, do you know who the Angels’ shortstop is at this point? I don’t.)
Is it just me, or does Detroit seem to be the only team making good moves? The rest of the AL has stood pat, and the NL contenders have either overpaid (Jones) or dealt too much away for minor fixes (see Mets trading Milledge to get a bad catcher and platoon OF…unless Milledge is somehow suspended as a result of the Mitchell report, that’s a worse move than either signing.)
December 10, 2007 at 10:37 am
While I don’t particularly want Matthews, right now we have no one out there but an aging Giles. Even Milton Bradley won’t sign with the Padres. We’re going to be the only team with a utility infielder playing the outfield.
December 23, 2007 at 4:37 pm
andrew why the hell you left atlanta
January 22, 2008 at 4:57 pm
Adding Jones should help a power-starved outfield. Pierre stole 64 bases in 2007 but had the worst on-base plus slugging percentage (.685) among N.L. outfielders.
LA Dodgers fan
Noel