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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 in the game, meaning more plate appearances even though he will be at the end 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 fre …

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