The following is a review of the 2008 season of former Detroit Tigers outfield Jacque Jones.
What I said then: "A power decline was not shocking for Jones last season considering his extreme groundball rate, but what we saw last season was a bit excessive.The move to Comerica Park hardly helps his cause.The good news is that he joins possibly the best lineup baseball the game, meaning more plate appearances even though he will be at the baseball of the batting order.Jones sacrificed power for contact last season, but even so, this is a little soon for a power breakdown of this sort.A good buy-low here."
Disaster. Jones was guaranteed at-bats on the primary side of a platoon with Marcus Thames, and Gary Sheffield seemed long in the tooth. His career average was near .280 coming into the year, and he had hit more than 20 homers in the three seasons prior to 2007, so he was surely a buy-low option. Dead wrong! Jones struggled with the bat early in the season, and he was eventually released and scooped by the Marlins. He was no better with the Marlins and finished the season in free agency. It is unclear where the veteran outfielder goes from here, but he will only be age 33 on Opening Day and still does have outfield range. It is rare for a player of Jones' caliber to simply cease as a major leaguer like he did in his early-30s, but it is also not unprecedented. Unless his status changes, he is not a fantasy option in 2009.
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