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1. billyshears Posted: September 04, 2008 at 02:24 PM (#2928817)Andrew Jones knows infinitely more about what it takes for him to succeed in the MLB than I do but I think it would be a nice start.
Of course, next season is the only one that counts for his next contract anyway. If he hit 30 HR, no one will care that he was a big turd this year. Of course, that means someone would have to give him a starting job, which at this point may not be a given.
and Andruw's got the behind to do it!
I was going to say "give it back," but screw Colletti and McCourt. They shouldn't get off scot-free.
Welcome to Andruw's world! How's the man supposed to hit with hs stomach a-gurgling and food-expectating all the time. It'll drive a man delirious.
Any chance Andruw will donate this year's salary to charity for wasting everyone's time?
No. About as much chance of the CEO of Lehman Bros. topping off the retirement packages of the back office workers whose stock options collapsed this year.
That confirms my suspicion that Putin is trying to poison the Curacao-US relationship.
Nahh, it'd take Andruw a week or longer to fully digest Prince, during which time he'd be able to do little more than lie on his side and moan.
I read somewhere that, since he's been hitting off of his back leg for so long, there's a good chance his knee is absolutely shot
It wasn't widely known at the time, but Murphy later revealed that he was dealing with deteriorating knees: not bad enough to keep him out of the lineup, but bad enough to rob him of torque and bat speed. Kind of like Jones, at that. Obviously they aren't identical, but the Murphy case is very similar to that of Andruw.
It is shaping up as one of the colossal collapses. Yet another example illustrating the wisdom of not making too many predictions about a player in mid-career.
Swallowing a lot of aggression?
I wonder if there's something physically wrong with Jones that he hasn't revealed. Something he considers embarassing, like HIV? The cases of that kind of talent cratering without real reasons are so few that the default assumption should be that something's wrong.
Could be, but I don't think his situation requires anything more than knee trouble to explain it. He's undergone knee surgery this season and been on the DL twice, and was done for the year in early August.
He's been putting a lot of strain on his knees for a long time, with the combination of his weight and all those innings in center field. The gradual decline in bat speed over the past couple of years as well as the sudden fall off the cliff this year could quite adequately be a function of deteriorating knees.
The cases of that kind of talent cratering without real reasons are so few that the default assumption should be that something's wrong.
I certainly agree, and those cases "without real reasons" are very likely more accurately understood as "without real reasons of which we're informed."
Wow, um, that came out of nowhere.
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