Andruw Jones

I’ve suffered through the indignation if watching Andruw Jones strike out more times than the “Star Wars kid” ( http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HPPj6viIBmU) at Pure nightclub ( www.purethenightclub.com), and I resigned myself to the idea that he would rather pile ribs on home plate than swing a bat over it. I am completely comfortable with this idea. He’s earned every piece of hate that has rained upon his head. Then what does he do? He smokes a single to actually drive in a run! Miracles can happen! So of course, due to having the “attention span of a boiled potato”, myself as well as thousands of drunkards at Doyer Stadium told ourselves, “This is when he’ll break out of his zero for infinity slump”. Never mind that he looked just as terrible swinging at that slider as he has swinging at every other pitch this year (i.e. belly swings first and then the bat), and if that pitch was anywhere but accidentally right down the middle, his whiff would be at epic proportions to the likes of Casey ( http://ops.tamu.edu/x075bb/poems/casey.html). We had hopes. Andruw was up in the 9th inning. The Doyers down by one. Time for the slump to end. Here’s the pitch…High drive, deep to right field…Wait, I was watching Kirk Gibson’s homerun again. Of course Andruw struck out with a chance to do some damage, and of course the Doyers lost with a chance to tie Arizona for first place in what is the saddest race since Steven Hawking challenged Christopher Reeve to a 3 yard dash.

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om/watch?v=uORAyORWRAA as I prefer to call ‘em) in the opening game, which was as exciting as Andruw Jones is fat and useless, 8-7, the Dodgers came back to stink up the joint down 3-0 in the 9th of game two. The proceeded to score 2 runs and NEARLY tie it in the 9th. For once you can’t blame Andruw, as he managed to walk, no matter how hard it is on his knees to carry that keg of a body. Moral victory for the Blue I would say!

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u step in something of solid and liquid form) struck out 3 times in 4 at-bats and was the Matt Kemp/Andruw Jones of the game. Russel Martin played the Russell Martin roll, coincidentally, but seemed to play it as if he was amped up on something, with the defensive abilities of a superman out there. It was so noticeable that Tim McCarver and Joe Buck spent a good 20 min “Alyssa Milano-ing” him (verbally of course). The prowess of Russell Martin on his knees was extolled by them for all to hear. I also worry that he was pumped to actually play with good players, and this gave him a taste of what it is like to play with players who are actually quite awesome. Unfortunately, there was nobody old or crotchety, enough to play the Jeff Kent roll, but you take comparisons where you can get them.

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This is the same moron who tosses $19 million to Andruw Jones, $16 million to Jason Schmitt, $9.5 million to Nomar Garciaparra and he is terrified of a trade that would increase payroll by $9 million? Granted he would have tried to sign CC to an extension and what not (and that would be about $25 million/year), but this is for the best pitcher in the game, not to mention a platoon player (who can play short) and a 3rd basemen. Everything the Dodgers wanted all in a package, and he vetoes it. It’s go to mean something when other teams won’t take on any of your high paid players because all of your high paid players are broken down and useless. So instead of moving towards a winning franchise, McCourt seems to love to meddle in mediocrity because we are dumb enough to keep going to games and to watch a bunch of turds in Dodger Blue “play baseball”. The best part of this trade was that we would keep ALL The high end prospects and could unload all the crappy players (Schmitt, Lowe, Nomar, Andruw, Kent) after next season and it would all be good. We are not a small market team, but apparently that is how the owner sees it. He is ready to try and turn Dodger stadium into a revenue service year round with his renovations and he is willing to increase prices to watch crap on the field but unwilling to make any moves of consequence to make the team actually look professional.

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away by not resigning him, and using that money to sign the worst free agent in franchise history, Andruw Jones (on a side note, I will not give him credit for the Takashi Saito signing because that is entirely to the credit of the overseas scouting staff). The biggest reason that he signed Andruw has more to do with Ned wanting someone the Dodgers who swings and misses more than he does, and who can be viewed as a bigger joke at his position than Colletti can.

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In more optimistic news, the Dodgers have since won 3 straight games and Andruw Jones and Nomar are coming back to stink up the line-up. At least I can use all the fat jokes that I couldn’t use with the hot dog eating contest when talking about Andruw now.

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inst the Astros, Brad Penny is likely to pitch Saturday in San Francisco, and Nomar Garciaparra and Andruw Jones showed no signs of regressing.

In the most key of battles, though, it seems that Rafael Furcal left Las Vegas after complaining about his sore back, and this is likely to set him back even more.  As usual, this is bad news for everyone except the guy who gets to play in the big leagues in Furcal’s spot, who in this case is Jason Repko. Technically called up to replace the injured Juan Pierre, Repko had a busy hat day, trading his Las Vegas 51s cap for Dodger headgear and ultimately wearing the Golden Sombrero, striking out his first four appearance (in the leadoff spot, no less) in the Dodgers’ series-opening 4-1 loss.

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And do us a favor while you're out there, give Jason Schmidt, Andruw Jones, Nomar Garciaparra, Rafael Furcal, (and Juan Pierre soon) a good ol' show of support pat on the back from their fans in Los Angeles.

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Losing Andruw Jones and then Juan Pierre has meant more playing time for their young hotshots Andre Ethier and Matt Kemp, something Torre was either unwilling or unable to do, perhaps because he was stuck by the same “play the most who you pay the most” philosophy that has plagued the Mariners.

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unced today that their trio of injury-plagued veterans – Nomar Garciaparra, Rafael Furcal and Andruw Jones – were to begin rehab assignments soon, with the two infielders eying the

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Since Jeff already astutely pointed out the flaws of Andruw Jones, Nomar, Kent, and Schmitt, I’ll avoid rehashing his points and add anything else I can to the conversation. 

Jeff Kent: The first Dodger to appear on the list, and the first Dodger to actually witness the big bang (this actually would have been Olmaedo Saenz, but the Dodgers let him go last year), Jeff Kent has shown that he still has some pop, but at $9 million a year, his range is limited by his walker because the tennis balls on the legs constantly get stuck while turning a double play. Not a terrible player, but really not worth $9 million.

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Examples: $45 over five years for Juan Pierre; $36 million over two years for Andruw Jones.

The Dodgers are the prime example of why a team with a massive wallet can’t win. They pour tens of millions of dollars into guys who simply aren’t worth tens of millions of dollars. Colletti wasn’t around for this, but remember Darren Dreifort and Kevin Brown? Now, I don’t feel that baseball players deserve all these millions of dollars to begin with, but if the market dictates that a team has to shell out large sums of cash in order to stay competitive, then the team should invest wisely. The Dodgers are going to have to pay guys like Russell Martin, James Loney and Clayton Kershaw at some point, so why waste money of guys like Pierre and

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y will be one of the teams right there at the end battling for a berth.

Los Angeles Dodgers

Can Andruw Jones rebound this season and return to his pre-2007 self?

Last season the Dodgers ranked 10th in the National League in runs scored, 13th in slugging percentage and 15th in home runs. Their lineup will be vastly different from opening day last year as they are implementing a number of young prospects who are expected to revitalize the offense lead by first baseman James Loney, rightfielder Matt Kemp and third baseman Andy Laroche. However, without any of these players having played an entire Major League season, it is unknown if they’ll be able to generate consistent offense over 162 games.

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