Jon Heyman reports that, in addition to the Yankees and the Rockies, the Tampa Bay Rays are now talking to Andruw Jones.
Jones hit .230/.341/.486 with 19 home runs and 49 RBI for the White Sox last season, but is line against lefties -- .256/.373./.558 -- is pretty attractive for a lot of teams. He’d certainly have more opportunities to hit in Tampa Bay than he would in New York -- where Jorge Posada is going to be the everyday DH -- or Colorado, where Jones would have to play more defense in a big outfield that would kill a lot of his value.
By the way, the fact that I feel really weird talking about Andruw Jones as a defensive liability is perhaps the best evidence that, as time goes on, I find myself stuck in the 1990s more and more. Well, that and the fact that I watched a bunch of X-Files episodes last night. There was a time when Andruw Jones was the best outfielder in baseball. There was a time when cell phones were a foot long. There was a time when I considered quitting law school and leaving my wife so I could stalk Gillian Anderson full time.
Times change.
