Should Andruw Jones Be Inducted Into the Hall of Fame? 

I realize that I am biased but there should be no debate...best outfielder ever!! He absolutely made so many catches look routine that other fielders wouldn't have gotten to.

Yeah my favorite, all the history I watched, sickens me bro !!! I love my braves but wtfuckkkkkk!!! He got fucked , and it fucked him up !!

@@jeremyhutchings5578 huh THATS MAYS

Eh honestly it's close an I'm q no.... but I'm q small hall guy.... he should have been better he got lazy an fat.... I hold that against him qn don't just get blinded

Oh an he sucks just when they start testing?

Outta Here Baseball Wow, that’s GOAT material if he would have kept up that pace

@Gregory Durant Probably around 40 years old. I don't remember exactly when but I know older players didn't regress super fast in that game

SportStorm jeter has a -167 drs for his carrer not a good defender...

Video game ? Lol

Lol there’s a reason video games aren’t real life

If Ozzie Smith is in the hall of fame andruw Jones will be at some point.

I've noticed there's not a lot of Andruw Jones defensive highlights out there. Not for a guy who ESPN web gems every week during his prime. I think if he was playing today with the proliferation of social media and RU-vid highlight videos, he would be a no doubt HOF.

I watched a lot of Brave games because I lived in Alabama at the time in my 20’s. What people aren’t realizing or don’t know there were a ton of plays he botched or didn’t hustle to get. To be a HOF that certainly factors in

As a Mets fan, I agree. He made it look easy. So many balls looked like doubles off the bat, only to see Jones fly through the air, with a fucking smirk on his face, to catch it. Best I've seen defensively.

While I'm here, McGriff should have gone in, too.

Ryan R Lol.. You must have never watched a guy named Ken Griffey Jr??

Joshua Orr Griffey was bad defensively his last 10 seasons. Jones peaked higher on defense in their primes too. Of course jones isn’t close to Griffey offensively

Ryan R Seriously bro?? Griffey Jr was one of the greatest CF of All Time!! 10 Gold Gloves!! Count em

@@fernandogeronimo5595 Griffey Jr. was not the fielder Jones was....certainly above average but not on par with Andruw. Jones won 10 straight Gold Gloves and it was not a popularity contest....I also remember a time when Andruw Jones was the lock for the HOF instead of Chipper...Andruw just tailed off rather quickly and never really hit for average. Both great CFs breaking in as teenagers.

How bout torii hunter?

Dylan Cyr the REAL best defensive center fielder of all time 🙌🏽

Dude Griffey is the greatest

Let’s relax

His batting average was low and 434 homeruns he didn't get to 500 that's keeping him out

Simmons is the best defensive shortstop I've ever seen.

I thought Andruw Jones was from Curaçao... Curaçao is an island mate... Not a country :p

@@MrGmar14 Constituent country since 10-10-10 :P

@@MrAlex888877 great country then! Nice beaches and campo alegre is always fun ;p

Andrew let himself go because we failed him , he was my favorite , him then chipper , the Jones bros but I was more into Andrew, he got screwed, he declined when my shitty city let him go , simple as that, I was devastated when I heard he was going to the al Sox wtfuckkkkkk., he got depressed, and rightfully so , he built his foundation and poured his heart out and boom gone , wtfuckkkkkk would any human with a good heart do !!?? My man my hof no matter what !!

Hernandez doesn't deserve it because he didn't take care of himself and so his career went south prematurely. Hodges just got old and was unable to hit anymore, though he was almost 40. Only a 43.9 WAR for Hodges' career.

Lou Whitaker or Dave Concepcion

Mattingly.

Yup he always positioned himself like 20 feet behind 2nd base and would always have to turn and run back to make plays while also covering covering crazy ground.he also made everything look so easy lol he looked like he would rest his glove on his shoulder as if he was just waiting for the ball to drop In lol. I was a Griffey fan and my cuz was a Braves fan we would always argue about who was better between jr and Jones and he was finally able to convince me by showing me a side to side vid of how shallow Jones played compared to jr

This is a great point, and it highlights the question others have mentioned where they say there aren't that many videos of him making great plays. The thing is, those who saw him play regularly understand that was part of his brilliance. He very often didn't have to make a highlight-reel play, because he was where the ball was before it got there. And those few highlights that are out there show what he could do when necessary. I recall that one of the Braves announcers once said after he made a great play "They say the earth is 70% covered by water. Well, the other 30% is covered by Andruw Jones". What a fantastic and apt description of the vast amount of outfield that man could cover with ease. Halfway through his career I remember thinking he had a great shot at hitting 600 homeruns. The fact that he didn't come close to that is very disappointing, so I can appreciate the argument that he doesn't deserve to be in the HOF. However, the HOF is about what a player accomplished during his career, not what he could have accomplished. Leave that to the Almighty. Don't look to Andruw when you educate your kids on always fighting and never giving up or becoming lackadaisical. That's fine. But the man, on the merits of what he accomplished and his pure numbers - and what he meant to those great Braves teams (and HOF pitchers)in the 90s, absolutely, 100% deserves to be in the HOF.

Exactly my thoughts…

I assumed that was a joke tbh

Yeah career dWAR of -14.7

Austen Hernandez he wasn't very good in the field

Austen Hernandez go take a look at his stats and get back to me when ur done

Austen Hernandez last time I checked, gold gloves weren’t stats lmao. How about him having the worst drs of all time and the 3rd worst uzr of all time. Those r the 2 most important defensive stats so u can’t say that doesn’t matter. And all the good gloves prove is that he is overrated.

Austen Hernandez and only amateur sports fans judge ppl off of gold gloves. Lorenzo Cain only got his first gold glove last year and he’s one of the best defenders last decade

Jones and Avery only played one year together, so you will have to ask Kevin Millwood.

@@bravesfandevotee23 ask him too... or, ask Denny Neagle, Paul Byrd, John Bukett, Jason Marquis, Damien Moss, Tim Spooneybarger, Mike Hampton, Russ Ortiz, Haracio Ramirez, Shane Reynolds, Jaret Wright, or John Thompson. The list is long of starters who benefited from that exceedingly excellent OF play.

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Everyone ahead of him in Defensive WAR is a infielder.

Let me guess you think Scott rolen should make the HOF?

@@LL-ks7iy It would certainly be nice if he did make the Hall. He was one of the best third basemen of his time.

@@jimschwandt8089 if Scott makes it then so should Andruw.

@@LL-ks7iy It would be nice to see them both go in. That said, I'm not sure either one will. I think Rolen might have a slight advantage, being a third baseman. It's generally an underrepresented position in the Hall.

@@jimschwandt8089 you have to deserve the hall , you can't let people in cause their position is underrepresented. Andruw Jones deserves to be there 10 gold gloves and over 400 homeruns.

lukethenuke 16 thank you!

Travis McNamara I appreciate that, thank you!

Now as a Braves fan for the last 30+ yrs Andruw is absolutely a HoFer. Unfortunately that is out of my jurisdiction 😉

Not

Only player I remember seeing smoking cigs in the dugout on t.v..

yuri mazing thank you!

Over Chipper Jones, Tom Glavine, Greg Maddux?

Absolutely not

I was thinking the same thing

I thought the same.. But that play in Oakland was epic. Btwn that & the play in the stands against boston , it romanced many lol

Yeah Jeter's defense was... questionable.

Jeter was a good defender, not a “defensive specialist.” He made a few extremely memorable plays. That cutoff toss in Oakland was one of the most amazing plays I ever saw. When I think of Derek Jeter, I think of consistent clutch hitting and winning.

@@76JStucki Jeter made some.smart plays that stand out, but deeper analysis into his defense shows he didn't really deserve winning four out of his five Gold Gloves.

redditor James thanks!

Preach

He began having leg issues after he signed with the Dodgers. I guess when you play that hard it takes a toll on your body.

There's definitely a question of whether or not he should be in the hall

Without question is a huge exaggeration. There are plenty of questions regarding his worthiness which is the point of this entire video.

Everyone's entitled to their own opinion. Mine is he belongs, no centerfielder could hit consistently like him or field near as good as him for l0 years. I believe he will get in eventually. Remember, he retired at 35. No one can change my mind on this one but I love a good debate and other opinions

@@ramsaybushnaq6993 "everyone's entitled to their own opinions" is really easy way to slither out of a conversation you aren't really qualified to have. This dude played in the same generation as Carlos Beltran, Edmonds, Vernon Wells, Kenny Lofton, etc. He has an extreme falloff, he doesn't have a league average season after that decade and his 50 homer season is one of the most overrated of all time. He's a damn good player and an all star for sure but he's not a hall caliber player.

😂 I'm not slithering out of anything. You just named a bunch of players who were good fielders but Andruw was another level. He played on championship caliber teams. Edmonds fell off, vernon wells fell off big too. If he would have been a burden to the league and played 5 more seasons he would have over 2000 hits and 500 hrs he just chose to retire. The second he left Atlanta he should have just retired in my opinion

I had the same reaction...

I think he was trolling but I can't be sure lol.

Great Stone we all need baseball back

Probably because you're a noob. He was one of the greatest hitters of all time. Learn some baseball history.

How many players have 400 home runs and 10 gold gloves and aren't in the hall of fame? I love all the new metrics but it is really unfair to judge modern players by those metrics when past generations were not judged based on WAR,. Etc. He, the speaker, doesn't address AJ's power.

Ozzie isn't an outlier. Look up Luis Aparicio in the HOF.