After the contract ended, many baseball teams wanted to sign Andruw and offered attractive contract deals. Joe Carter , who is only on the list as an Honorable Mention, fails the Colavito test, with 183 career home runs on the road. He too played through the 1994 strike, but that balances his home/road, if anything. Rocky Colavito hit 374 home runs in about 14 full seasons during his career. He had 193 home runs at home, and 181 home runs on the road, about what you’d expect. Obviously, though, when we are discussing the 400 Homerun Club, implicitly we are talking about guys who did not hit 500 home runs.
His great contribution to Curacao football development was honored in 2002 with naming the federations development center after him. Also, Andruw is active on Twitter and frequently tweets about his opinions, life, and games. There are reels of story highlights in his profile where he has shared his personal and professional moments. Andruw is active on his social media accounts, where he shares his professional and personal life. In 2011, Jones and the New York Yankees confirmed a contract for the 2011 season for $2 million, with an additional $1.2 million in performance bonuses.
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They are the parents of one son, Druw, and one daughter, Madison. Druw was the top prospect in the 2022 Major League Baseball draft and was selected second overall by the Arizona Diamondbacks. Jones was selected to the Braves' postseason roster in 1996.
After showing up out of shape and over 20 pounds overweight, he continued to struggle, hitting below .200 for most of the season. Additionally, he had only 10 hits in 116 at-bats with runners in scoring position. Due to his lack of production, Jones was dropped to eighth in the Dodger line-up. This was the first time since 1998 that Jones had hit eighth in any line-up. "Druw is taller and leaner than his dad was as a teenager, but he has similar five-tool potential as a center fielder," reads Jones' MLB.com scouting report.
Awards and accomplishments
After the 2007 season, Jones signed with the Los Angeles Dodgers as a free agent to a 2-year deal, worth $36.2 million. However, Jones struggled with the Dodgers, batting just .158 with 3 home runs and 14 RBIs. Shortly after the season, Jones was released by the Dodgers. Since then, Jones has played for the Texas Rangers, Chicago White Sox, and New York Yankees.
Despite being a national baseball star, Andruw was under the rock since Curaçao was still way off the main path for major league scouts. From 1998 to 2007, Jones won 10 consecutive Gold Gloves. His 10 Gold Gloves for an outfielder ranks him in a tie for second with Al Kaline, Ichiro Suzuki, and Ken Griffey Jr. for most Gold Gloves won by an outfielder. Jones is also one of five center fielders to record at least 400 putouts in a season six times. The others are Willie Mays, Richie Ashburn, Kirby Puckett, and Max Carey.
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This is because, in baseball, 500 home runs is the Golden Ticket. With 500 home runs, you get the keys to the kingdom, you are royalty, and all others will bow before you or perish where they stand. Players who hit 500 home runs know where they stand in baseball history. Jones hit a home run to open his high school season on Opening Day, added two more MONSTER dingers in the second game of the season and recently added his biggest yet to the tally. During Wednesday’s 6-1 win over Decatur, the opposing fans were all over him.
He finished the season with 25 home runs and 100 runs batted in. Jones also led the South Atlantic League with 56 steals. His outstanding season was capped off when he was named Minor League Player of the Year. Stories of Andruw’s early accomplishments are the stuff of legend. As a 13-year-old, playing for his father’s Royal Scorpions team, he sent a ball screaming over 400 feet to the tennis court of a nearby hotel.
Becoming National Baseball Star
Began pro career with Gulf Coast and Danville ...Hit .336 for Danville in 36 games...Stole 21 bases in 63 games for both clubs. Plus, Galarraga missed all of 1999 due to cancer, after three straight years of 40-plus home runs, so he probably would have hit another there. Dude’s a 400 home run clubber, and may even be a 500 guy if you really got me started. The next guy that stands out on the list is Jose Canseco . Say what you will about Jose and his antics, his steroids, his ego, and his off-the-field behavior – in a vacuum, this guy was an elite homerun hitter. During his career at Tiger Stadium, Kaline hit 54 more homeruns at home than on the road (226/172).
Jones with White Sox first baseman Paul Konerko during spring training action, 2008. On October 2, the Braves announced they would not be bringing Jones back for the 2008 season. In the 2005, National League Divisional Series against the Houston Astros, Jones hit .471 with a home run and five RBIs. This section of a biography of a living person does not include any references or sources. Much of the play-by-play, game results, and transaction information both shown and used to create certain data sets was obtained free of charge from and is copyrighted by RetroSheet. About Baseball Reference Batting Glossary, Pitching Glossary, Wins Above Replacement Explainer, WAR data archive, BR Data Coverage, Frequently Asked Questions about MLB and Baseball, ...
He is currently 38 years old, has 473 home runs, and appears to be out of baseball. Could he hit 27 more homeruns if he played this year and then again until 40 or 41. Since playing in Japan, Jones attempted comebacks in both the 2015 and 2016 MLB seasons. He officially retired from baseball in February 2016 and was hired by the Braves as a special assistant later that month. Jones finished the season with a .247 average, 13 home runs and 33 runs batted in.
Jones started to draw many comparisons to Willie Mays and was considered the best center fielder in baseball outside of Ken Griffey Jr. The following season, Jones again blasted over 30 home runs and drove in 104 runs but his average dipped to .251 while his strikeouts increased. Jones played better in 2002 and 2003 and made the All-Star team in both seasons. However, Jones struggled in 2004 and failed to hit at least 30 home runs for the first time since 1999.
Jones made his MLB debut during the 1996 season with the Atlanta Braves. In the 1996 World Series, he became the youngest player ever to hit a home run in the postseason, and just the second player ever to homer in his first two World Series at-bats. The following season, Jones finished fifth in voting for Rookie of the Year.
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