Andruw Jones

Hello Reddit - my name is Andruw Jones. I am a former Braves center-fielder and played in Major League Baseball for 17 years for the Atlanta Braves, Los Angeles Dodgers, Texas Rangers, Chicago White Sox, and New York Yankees. I am excited to talk about this Braves team and can’t wait to see what they do this postseason.

I am now currently retired from professional baseball but I now work as a Special Assistant to the GM for the Braves and I have just announced a partnership with an Atlanta based Daily Fantasy Sports company named PrizePicks - you can find more information over at !

Edit: Andruw has to get going to get ready for tonight's game. He will answer some more questions tomorrow as well.

I was thinking about how MH2 is often compared to Andruw Jones, but I'm too young to have seen Andruw Jones play. For shits and giggles, I went and looked at Andruw's baseball reference page and audibly said "holy shit"

This man was a 5x all star, 10x gold glover with 440 career home runs. He led the MLB in homeruns in 2005, and led the NL in RBI's that same season. He slashed (.254, .337, .486) for his career. He, by all accounts, is one of the best defenders in MLB history.

Am I being blinded by my love for the Braves? Am I missing something about his career that isn't showing up on the scoresheet?

Hi everyone! Your Braves AMA person it seems like. I am thrilled to announce that our very own Andruw Jones will be doing an AMA tomorrow at 10 AM ET over on . When it's live I will make sure to post it on here but I wanted everyone to have a heads up so you can think of the perfect question for him!

It will, hopefully, be the starting point of a series of AMAs featuring Braves alumni. I will have more details on that in the near future.

It’s the middle of the holidays. We haven’t gotten much news to be excited about this off-season other than the McGriff HOF news (and Murphy of course!). So let’s continue to track our other possible ‘23 HOF’er. Per released ballots, Andruw has a decent chance this year (around 68% so far). You can track announced ballots here:

What say you? Is this (finally) Andruw’s year?

For the last few months people have been complaining about Kirby Puckett and Andruw Jones not getting cards for their high tier diamonds. Do you guys think SDS is in a lose lose situation here? They could give them cards but if they’re not cracked out of their minds then people will call it an L but if they don’t drop them then every post is about those two specifically. What stats would you think those two cards would need to satisfy the players?

I made a post about this about a year ago on an old account and really just want to revisit the argument after recently seeing some articles and conversations about the topic.

INTRO

A lot of people brought up good points why Andruw was "good but not great" and I get a lot of where they're coming from:

• His career was pretty short

• Gold Gloves aren't that important

• Was he actually the best defender at his position?

When you break it down, my reasons were:

• 10 Gold Gloves (1 of 16 total players with 10+) and arguably the best defensive CF of all time

• 400+ HR (1 of 56 players)

• 1 of 4 players with both 10 GG and 400+ HRs.

NEW INFO

So today I was reading an article on Barstool Sports (yeah sometimes they suck), but this one was titled Fuck Your Numbers, Andruw Jones is a Hall of Famer. The writer talked about how if Andruw was going to get knocked for falling off sooner than most, then he should get credit for being great sooner than a lot of HOFers.

Fuck it I'll say it, Andruw Jones is the best defensive CFer in baseball history.

I don't care if he was only good for 10 years. But for those 10 years he was a better defensive CFer than any other CFer ever.

I know DRAA isn't the only defensive stat, but to be 93 defensive runs above average more than the second guy is a big deal. (and not just at CF, but all OFers ever) He's also 22nd All-Time in dWAR.

He had a better 10 year stretch than many HOFers did in their 15-20 year career. You can't knock one of the greatest CFers ever for being great for a decade at one of the most physically demanding positions.

"158 games played, 35 homers & 104 RBIs, .266/.344/.503 hitting slash line for an OPS of .847. 3.7 Offensive WAR, 2.4 Defensive WAR (6.1 total)."

That was his average season over 10 seasons on one of the best teams.

"Before his production rapidly declined upon turning 30, Jones produced MLB's third-best from 1998-2007. The two players who ranked ahead of him within this span were Barry Bonds and Alex Rodriguez."

CONCLUSION

I believe this will be his last year on the ballot since he only received 7.5% of votes last year and you need at least 5% to stay on, but I felt the need to write this up for the player that made me fall in love with baseball to show that he deserves to be among the greats in Cooperstown. I think a lot of people remember him for his disappointing years following the Braves, and I do think his stats get overshadowed by some of the best players baseball has seen who played during his time (Albert Pujols, Ichiro, ARod, Barry Bonds, and Ken Griffey Jr. to name a few) But people can't forget that he was one of the best players in baseball for 10 years.

I’ve been watching the ballots being posted in for the HoF and with the exception of one, keep seeing Andruw Jones votes. Has anyone noted how many he has at this point compared to past years? What do y’all think?