So Very Bored

If Andruw Jones keeps this up, will he have had enough at bats to qualify for the #1 spot?

I actually had meant to make mention of Jones but forgot to. He's no where close to qualifying for the batting title at the moment and in order to do so he would to play in every game the rest of the year and average 5.39 plate appearances a game to get to 502 for the season. But I figured it'd be interesting to see where Andruw ranks all-time with centerfielders with a minimum of 227 plate appearances (total he has going into today) and here's the results:

 

 Cnt Player            **OPS+**  PA Year Age Tm  Lg  G   AB  R   H  2B 3B HR RBI  BB IBB  SO HBP  SH  SF GDP  SB CS   BA   OBP   SLG   OPS  Positions
+----+-----------------+--------+---+----+---+---+--+---+---+---+---+--+--+--+---+---+---+---+---+---+---+---+---+--+-----+-----+-----+-----+---------+
    1 Andruw Jones          32   227 2008  31 LAD NL  69 199  20  32  8  1  2  13  26   0  73   1   0   1   5   0  1  .161  .260  .241  .501 *8/D      
    2 George Wright         33   393 1985  26 TEX AL 109 363  21  69 13  0  2  18  25   5  49   0   3   2   9   4  7  .190  .241  .242  .483 *98/D     
    3 John Shelby           35   371 1989  31 LAD NL 108 345  28  63 11  1  1  12  25   5  92   0   0   1   6  10  7  .183  .237  .229  .466 *8        
    4 Ty Cline              38   240 1965  26 MLN NL 123 220  27  42  5  3  0  10  16   2  50   0   4   0   1   2  2  .191  .246  .241  .487 879/3     
    5 Gary Woods            39   239 1977  22 TOR AL  60 227  21  49  9  1  0  17   7   0  38   2   3   0   5   5  4  .216  .246  .264  .510 *8        
    6 Marvell Wynne         43   363 1985  25 PIT NL 103 337  21  69  6  3  2  18  18   2  48   1   7   0   8  10  5  .205  .247  .258  .505 *8        
    7 Brett Butler          44   268 1982  25 ATL NL  89 240  35  52  2  0  0   7  25   0  35   0   3   0   1  21  8  .217  .291  .225  .516 *8        
    8 Mel Almada            44   267 1939  26 TOT ML  81 246  28  56  6  1  1  10  19   0  25   0   2   0   4   3  0  .228  .283  .272  .555 *8/7      
    9 Wally Mattick         44   238 1913  26 CHW AL  71 207  15  39  8  1  0  11  18   0  16   0  13   0   0   3  0  .188  .253  .237  .490 *8/7      
   10 Corey Patterson       45   229 2008  28 CIN NL  85 216  30  42  9  1  7  17   8   0  29   1   3   1   1  11  5  .194  .226  .343  .569 *8

Funny to also see Corey Patterson on that list for this year as well. Andruw Jones is truly having a historically bad season.

With a historically bad contract. The fact that it's short helps it not be the worst of all time by any stretch of the imagination, but I would imagine it has NO competition for worst short contract of all time. $18 million a year, even if he hadn't fallen apart is way too much. Scott Boras is evil.