The Adam Jones Appreciation Thread

[OriolesMagicPlease]

I will most definitely miss Adam, not really his defense, but overall as a player and stand up guy. 

[OFFNY]

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Adam Jones hit his 4th home run of the season against the Red Sox, and just missed hitting his 5th later in the same game (he had to settle for a double.)

In a sense, he still seems to be playing for the Orioles.

 

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[SteveA]

45 minutes ago, OFFNY said:

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Adam Jones hit his 4th home run of the season against the Red Sox, and just missed hitting his 5th later in the same game (he had to settle for a double.)

In a sense, he still seems to be playing for the Orioles.

 

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And he's trying to revive a tradition from Baltimore out in the desert...

https://twitter.com/SimplyAJ10/status/1114274109687390208

[OsFanSinceThe80s]

5 minutes ago, SteveA said:

And he's trying to revive a tradition from Baltimore out in the desert...

https://twitter.com/SimplyAJ10/status/1114274109687390208

Hoping Trumbo hits a lot of homers and gets traded to the Diamondbacks. 

[atomic]

I think the ending of the pies was the downfall of the team.  

[Natty]

Glad to see Jonesy off to a good start with Arizona. 

[OsFanSinceThe80s]

 

[backwardsk]

7 hours ago, OsFanSinceThe80s said:

 

Cleveland not making Jones a bigger offer is a head scratcher.

[baltfan]

Go AJ, go!!!!

[Frobby]

1 hour ago, backwardsk said:

Cleveland not making Jones a bigger offer is a head scratcher.

They’re at a record payroll for them ($152 mm, $9 mm higher than last year’s record) and probably just hit the limit of what they were willing to spend.    Despite four playoff appearances in six years, and winning records in all six, the Indians only cracked 2 mm in attendance once in all that time, and they have relatively modest TV revenue.  https://blogs.fangraphs.com/estimated-tv-revenues-for-all-30-mlb-teams/

[backwardsk]

4 hours ago, Frobby said:

They’re at a record payroll for them ($152 mm, $9 mm higher than last year’s record) and probably just hit the limit of what they were willing to spend.    Despite four playoff appearances in six years, and winning records in all six, the Indians only cracked 2 mm in attendance once in all that time, and they have relatively modest TV revenue.  https://blogs.fangraphs.com/estimated-tv-revenues-for-all-30-mlb-teams/

https://legacy.baseballprospectus.com/compensation/cots/american-league/cleveland-indians-2/

What am I missing here.  Looks like payroll for the 25 man is down from 2018.  In any event, if baseball has a competitive team that are unable to go to $160M in payroll to support their roster, that's a problem IMO.

[Frobby]

1 minute ago, backwardsk said:

https://legacy.baseballprospectus.com/compensation/cots/american-league/cleveland-indians-2/

What am I missing here.  Looks like payroll for the 25 man is down from 2018.  In any event, if baseball has a competitive team that are unable to go to $160M in payroll to support their roster, that's a problem IMO.

I’m just going off this:  https://www.baseball-reference.com/teams/CLE/attend.shtml

As to contending teams not being able to spend $160 mm, that’s just the way it is for some teams.    You don’t see Tampa, Oakland or KC spending that, and they’ve all had contending teams in the recent past.   The Royals went to the WS two years in a row, winning once, with payrolls around $125 mm.   Tampa’s payroll is under $53 mm this year and they’re expected to contend.    

[Sydnor]

19 minutes ago, backwardsk said:

https://legacy.baseballprospectus.com/compensation/cots/american-league/cleveland-indians-2/

What am I missing here.  Looks like payroll for the 25 man is down from 2018.  In any event, if baseball has a competitive team that are unable to go to $160M in payroll to support their roster, that's a problem IMO.

Sportrac has the Indians payroll at approximately $119 million, which is correct. I don’t know where Baseball Reference got $152 million from, but they spent the off-season slashing payroll by trading Gomes, Encarnacion, and Alonso, while letting Miller, Brantley, Allen, Chisenhall, and several others depart as free agents.

https://www.spotrac.com/mlb/cleveland-indians/payroll/

[Frobby]

6 minutes ago, Sydnor said:

Sportrac has the Indians payroll at approximately $119 million, which is correct. I don’t know where Baseball Reference got $152 million from, but they spent the off-season slashing payroll by trading Gomes, Encarnacion, and Alonso, while letting Miller, Brantley, Allen, Chisenhall, and several others depart as free agents.

https://www.spotrac.com/mlb/cleveland-indians/payroll/

On a different page, BB-ref has the Indians at $123.7 mm, close to what Spotrac says.   Sorry to have posted misleading information.    My point is pretty much the same, though.     Cleveland is financially stretched and that’s why they didn’t pony up for Adam Jones and several other players who could have helped them.