Andruw Jones isn't done playing and hopes to make a comeback in 2016.
The former five-time All-Starjoined Chip Caray, Joe Simpson and Tom Glavine in the Fox Sports South booth on Sunday as part of Braves Alumni Weekend, and said he isn't retired, and that he tried to come back for the 2015 season after two Marquise Blair Jerseys seasons in Japan.
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I got a couple of phone calls but nothing came of it,he said.
He added that while retirement is in the near future, he's not quite ready to end his career. He won 10 Gold Gloves withthe Braves from 1998 to 2007. Jones turns 39 in April.
"I just wanted to just go to Spring Training and give it a try and see what happens," Jones John Reid Jerseys said of comeback thoughts before this season. Im going to give it one more try next year, and if I dont get it, I will retire."
After 11 seasons with the Braves, he spent a season each with Dodgers, Rangers and White Sox before playing for the Yankees for two seasons. He last played for the Yankees in 2012, whenhe had 14 home runs, 34 RBIs and 28 walksin 269 plate appearances over 94 games (.197 BA/.701 OPS/87 OPS+).
Jones played two seasons in Japan,where he hit .232 and had 50 home runsfor theTohoku Rakuten Golden Eagles.
Jake Luton Jerseys Jones' agent, Scott Boras, that his client with a major league team as a part-time outfielder/first baseman and to come off the bench as a right-handed bat. His .247 batting average in 2011 with the Yankees was his highest in the five seasons he wasn't with the Braves.
Considered oneof the great defensive centerfielders of all time in his prime, Jones'skills in that areatailed off at the end. defensive wins above replacement, Jones was below replace the level each of his final four seasons in Michael Dickson Jerseys the field.