Outfielder Adam Jones, who has spent the past 11 seasons with the Baltimore Orioles, has a new home. The 33-year old outfielder has signed a one year, $3 million contract with the Arizona Diamondbacks.
Jones began his professional career with the Seattle Mariners, but was traded to the Orioles prior to the 2008 season for pitcher Erik Bedard in one of the most lopsided trades in MLB history. While Bedard only won 15 games over parts of three injury plagued seasons, Jones became among the best players to ever wear an O's uniform.
Although Jones' production was down during the O's 115 loss season in 2018, he collected 1781 hits for a .279 batting average with 263 HR and 866 RBI over the past 11 seasons with five AL All-Star appearances and four Gold Gloves for his play in center field.
Including his brief tenure with the Mariners, Jones enters the 2019 season with 1813 hits. Provided he stays healthy, he does have an outside shot at 3,000 career hits. For now he joins a team that isn't expected to do much in 2019 and he might very well be on the move again after this season, if not sooner. But Jones offers a veteran presence to a younger team which has seen the departures of Paul Goldschmidt, AJ Pollock and Patrick Corbin and faces many challenges. Jones can help the team through that and in the process give himself a new lease on life.
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