Chipper Jones Autograph

Jones hit his 460th home run off Trevor Cahill of the Arizona Diamondbacks on June 27, 2012, putting Jones in 33rd position on the list of top 300 Major League Baseball home run hitters. Jones is also in 33rd position on the list of Major League Baseball career doubles leaders, passing Lou Gehrig’s record for doubles during the same series with Arizona on June 29, 2012.Jones made great progress with his rehab and took part in spring training. He was in the Braves’ opening day lineup against the Nationals, getting the first hit and scoring the first run of the 2011 Major League Baseball season.Jones opened the 2012 season on the disabled list, following surgery on March 26, 2012, to repair a torn meniscus in his left knee. He was activated from the disabled list and was in the lineup on April 10, as the Braves faced the Houston Astros; he went 2–4 with a single and a two-run home run, helping the Braves to their first win of the season.

On March 1, 2020, Jones was hired by ESPN to be a color analyst, starting with 20 Wednesday Night Baseball broadcasts. Jones left ESPN in the off-season after Jon Sciambi, his primary broadcast partner, joined the Marquee Sports Network as the play-by-play announcer for its Chicago Cubs telecasts.On March 22, 2012, the Braves announced that Jones would retire following the 2012 season, after 19 major league seasons with the team. Following the announcement, a fan tribute song called “The Chipper Jones Song” was featured in a number of sports blogs.Jones signed a six-year, $90 million contract with the Braves in 2000. Jones batted .330 in 2001, 5th best in the league, and led the league with a .349 road batting average. On his 29th birthday, he hit two home runs. On defense, however, his range factor of 2.14 placed him last among the regular major league third basemen who qualified for the fielding ranking.The final game of his career was the 2012 National League Wild Card Playoff (dubbed the “infield fly rule game” following a controversial call by umpire Sam Holbrook), in which the Braves lost 6–3. In his final at-bat, Jones hit a broken-bat single for an infield base hit, with two outs in the bottom of the ninth.

Jones made his major league debut on September 11, 1993, as the youngest player in the league. In 1994, he was expected to compete for the starting left field job after veteran Ron Gant broke his leg during an offseason dirt bike accident. However, Jones suffered an anterior cruciate ligament tear in his left knee in spring training. As a result, he spent the entire strike shortened 1994 season on the disabled list.Following a successful season, Jones played with the triple-A Richmond Braves, where he played 139 games before being called to Atlanta for his major league debut. During his time in the Braves’ minor league system, Jones was involved in a bench-clearing brawl with future Major League stars Manny Ramirez and Jim Thome. Thome and Jones would eventually go on to develop a good friendship over the years. He also changed his position from shortstop to third base, following the guidance of the Braves organization.He married second wife Sharon Logonov in March 2000 in Pierson, Florida. They have three sons: Larry Wayne III (Trey), Tristen, and Shea, named after Shea Stadium because of Jones’s great success in the stadium. As of June 14, 2012, Jones and his wife Sharon had separated. Their divorce was finalized in November of the same year. Jones met his first wife, Karin Fulford, while he was playing with the Braves class A affiliate in Macon, Georgia. The couple married in 1992 and divorced in 2000, after it was revealed that Jones had an 18-month extramarital affair with a Hooters waitress that produced a son, Matthew, born in 1998. Jones performed well both offensively and defensively during the 2007 season. On June 16, he hit a single in the second inning against the Cleveland Indians for his 2,000th career hit. On July 5, Jones tied and passed Braves legend Dale Murphy for first on the all-time Atlanta Braves home run list when he hit his 371st and 372nd home runs against the Los Angeles Dodgers at Dodger Stadium. This game was also the first time he hit homers from both sides of the plate since 2000. The next day, he had his 400th career double in the ninth inning against San Diego Padres pitcher Kevin Cameron, who had previously only allowed one extra-base hit all year. On July 29, Jones matched a career-high with 5 RBIs as the Braves shut out the Arizona Diamondbacks 14–0. He accomplished the feat again on August 23 against the Cincinnati Reds. In the fifth inning of an August 9 game at Shea Stadium, Jones hit a towering three-run homer to right field off Mets starter John Maine. It would later be measured at 470 feet (140 m).In 2008, Jones released a charity wine called “Chipper Chardonnay”, with a portion of the proceeds supporting the Miracle League, an organization serving children with disabilities. On April 24, Jones was in the lineup against the Los Angeles Dodgers on his 40th birthday. He hit a solo home run in Atlanta’s 4–3 win, ending up with a career record of .429 (21-for-49) with five home runs on his birthday. The next day, in the final regular-season at-bat at Dodger Stadium of his career, Jones knocked in the winning run in the top of the 9th inning. On May 2, Jones capped off a wild extra-inning contest with the Philadelphia Phillies by hitting a 2-run walk-off homer in the bottom of the 11th. He referred to the game-winning home run as one of the best individual moments of his career, as it finished a 15–13 Braves win that saw the team rally from two deficits of five runs or more. Jones got off to a poor start in 2010 and met with Atlanta Braves management in June to discuss possible retirement at the end of the season, but his performance improved as the season progressed. Jones’s season came to an end after he was injured in a game against the Houston Astros on August 10, 2010; injury reports indicated that he had torn the ACL in his left knee, which would require surgery. In an August 13 press conference, he stated that he would not retire, and that “I don’t want the fans’ final image of me to be one of me hurt on the field”.During a May 18 game at Tampa Bay, Jones was hit by a ground ball and suffered a severe contusion to his left leg. On May 25, he was placed on the DL after it became clear that the injury would require more time to heal. Jones returned to the Braves’ lineup on June 10.

On April 8, 2011, Jones hit his 2,500th base hit in the Braves’ home opener versus the Philadelphia Phillies. His former manager Bobby Cox was in attendance. On April 13, 2011, he recorded his 1,500th RBI, against the Florida Marlins, with a solo home run off Randy Choate. On April 26, 2011, Chipper recorded his 500th double against the San Diego Padres. He also tied Mickey Mantle for second-most RBIs all-time by a switch hitter; Jones passed Mantle for sole possession of second place all-time on April 27, 2011 (with 1,512 RBI) after a 3-run stand-up triple, helping the Braves beat the San Diego Padres 7–0.In 2009, he was ranked #10 on the Sporting News list of the 50 greatest current players in baseball. A panel of 100 baseball people, many of them members of the Baseball Hall of Fame and winners of major baseball awards, were polled to compile the list. Jones was selected to play in the inaugural 2006 World Baseball Classic (along with Braves teammates Jeff Francoeur and Brian McCann). He hit a home run in his first at bat of the Classic against Mexico off of Atlanta Braves teammate Óscar Villarreal, who was with the team from 2006 to 2007. Jones went 6-for-17 with a double and two home runs in the tournament. He hit his 400th career home run on June 5 off Ricky Nolasco of the Florida Marlins, and he was named NL Player of the Week for the week of June 2–8. He was picked to start in the 2008 Major League Baseball All-Star Game, receiving the most votes by fans, managers, and other players of any NL third basemen. Jones won his first batting title at age 36, the oldest switch-hitter to win a batting title. Jones hit .364 during 2008, one point off the all-time switch-hitter high for a season of .365, set by Mickey Mantle in 1957.Jones suffered from a torn meniscus in his right knee for much of the first half of the 2011 season, and received Cortisone shots in an attempt to manage the pain. When this became ineffective, he elected to undergo arthroscopic surgery and was placed on the disabled list on July 9, 2011. He returned to the lineup on July 25.

On August 12, 2011, Jones hit a three-run homer against the Chicago Cubs for his 1000th extra base hit. On August 19, 2011, Jones confirmed that he would return for the 2012 season, the final year on his contract, thus ending ongoing speculation about his possible retirement. On August 31, 2011, Jones hit his 450th career home run off John Lannan of the Washington Nationals. In 2002, he batted .327, again 5th best in the NL. Jones was third in the league with a .435 on-base percentage. On August 16, 2004, he hit the 300th home run of his career in a 5–4 victory over the San Diego Padres. Following the 2005 season, Jones reworked his contract with the Braves—freeing up money for the Braves to pursue elite free agents, while virtually ensuring he would end his career in Atlanta. The revamped deal gave the Braves $15 million over the course of the next three years, as well as $6 million to use in 2006. The new deal also converted two final team option years to guaranteed contracts. While the Braves enjoyed some early successes, injuries to the pitching staff spoiled the ample contributions from Atlanta’s potent offense. While the Braves posted a winning record, they finished third in the National League East, and sat out the postseason.

Chipper Jones was born in DeLand, Florida, on April 24, 1972. His father, Larry Wayne Jones Sr., was a teacher and coach at T. DeWitt Taylor High School in Pierson, the same high school Jones would later attend and play baseball. His mother is Lynne Jones. Jones received the nickname “Chipper” from his father and other family members, who saw the younger Larry as a “chip off the old block.” He showed an early love for baseball predominantly because of his father’s position as coach, and began to play Little League teams at age seven.

In 1991, Jones played with the Macon Braves, Atlanta’s class-A minor league affiliate. His average was .326, with 24 doubles, 11 triples, 15 home runs, 40 steals, 69 walks, and 79 strikeouts in 473 at bats; however, he made 56 errors at the shortstop position. Jones moved up to the Durham Bulls, the Braves’ class A-advanced minor league team, in 1992. Jones’s average was .277 after 70 games; he was then moved to double-A Greenville Braves where he cut his error total from 56 in the previous season to 32.In 2009, Jones led all major league third basemen in errors, with 22, and had the lowest fielding percentage of any starting major league third baseman (.930).Jones finished the season first in the NL in times reached base on an error (14) and in OPS (1.029), second in batting average (.337), and third in OBP (.425) and SLG (.604). He was also sixth in MVP voting, his highest finish since winning the award in 1999.

Larry Wayne “Chipper” Jones Jr. (born April 24, 1972) is an American former professional baseball third baseman who played in Major League Baseball (MLB) for the Atlanta Braves from 1993 to 2012. The Braves chose Jones with the first overall pick in the 1990 MLB draft. He was also a member of their 1995 World Series championship team that beat the Cleveland Indians. An eight-time All-Star, Jones won the 1999 National League (NL) Most Valuable Player Award and the 1999 and 2000 NL Silver Slugger Award for third basemen. He was the MLB batting champion in 2008 after hitting .364. Jones began the 2008 season where he left off in 2007, hitting over .400 in April while slugging 7 home runs, including the first ever homer at Nationals Park during the inaugural game at the stadium on Opening Day. He also had back-to-back games in which he hit two home runs. Despite these accomplishments, he ultimately lost the NL Player of the Month award in April to Chase Utley. On June 13, Jones was hitting .414 with 15 home runs, but his average dropped to .393 by June 22. On July 3, 2012, Jones was named to the NL All-Star team as a replacement for the injured Matt Kemp. That same day, he had his third career five-hit game and the first since 2002. He made it known that he wished the National League would win the All-Star game in his pregame address to his NL teammates:

Jones ended his career in 2012 with a .303 career batting average, 468 home runs, and 1,623 runs batted in (RBIs). He has the most career RBIs for a third baseman and holds the Braves team record for career on-base percentage (.402); Jones ranks third on the Braves career home run list. Among switch hitters, Jones ranks second behind Eddie Murray for career RBIs, and he is the only switch hitter in MLB history with a career batting average of at least .300 and 400 or more home runs. He was the 18th player in MLB history to accumulate 5,000 at bats and finish with at least a .300 batting average, .400 on-base percentage, and .500 slugging percentage—and the only switch hitter to reach all of these milestones.Jones won the Gatorade Circle of Champions Florida Baseball Player of the Year, Regional Baseball Player of the Year, was the Runner-up National Player of the Year, and was inducted into the Florida High School Athletic Association Hall of Fame in 2012. Jones accepted a scholarship offer to play college baseball at the University of Miami.

Before the start of the 2002 season, Jones announced his willingness to move from third base to left field, to make room for the incoming Vinny Castilla. Jones proved adequate in left field, but following two more early playoff exits in 2002 and 2003, a hamstring pull in the early 2004 season and the struggles of third baseman Mark DeRosa, he moved back to his regular position of third base.During the All-Star game (the only time in his 19-year career that he played in Kansas City), Jones hit a single into right field at his first (and only) at bat during the game, and the National League won 8–0. At the All-Star Game break after July 8, Jones was hitting .318 with 6 home runs and 33 RBIs.

Jones was announced as one of the four (alongside Jim Thome, Vladimir Guerrero, and Trevor Hoffman) inducted into the National Baseball Hall of Fame on January 24, 2018. He is the second 1st-overall draft pick to be elected to the Hall of Fame.

The Atlanta Braves selected Jones as the first pick overall in the 1990 Major League Baseball draft and signed him to a contract with a $275,000 signing bonus. Atlanta expressed a desire to select pitcher Todd Van Poppel as the first pick; however, Van Poppel explicitly stated that he would not sign with the Braves. Atlanta then selected Jones, who played shortstop at the time.

In 1999, Jones won the National League MVP award after becoming the first player ever to hit over .300 (.319) while slugging 40 or more home runs (45; 3rd in the NL) and doubles (41), drawing 100 or more walks (126; 3rd in the league), notching 100 or more RBI (110) and runs scored (116), and stealing 20 or more bases (25). Ironically, Jones was not selected for the MLB All-Star game that year. He was also walked intentionally 18 times; 2nd in the league, and his .633 slugging percentage was 4th best in the NL. A major factor in his selection as MVP was his performance against the Braves’ chief competitors, the New York Mets. The Braves led the National League East by only one game as they entered a three-game September series against the Mets, the team that was right on their heels. Atlanta swept the series at Turner Field, though, largely thanks to Jones, who hit four home runs and drove in seven of the 13 runs that the Braves scored. For the season, he hit .319 with a .510 on-base percentage, a 1.000 slugging percentage, and seven home runs against the Mets. During the 1999 NLCS, Jones drew the ire of Mets fans by saying, “Now, all the Mets fans can go home and put their Yankees’ stuff on.” In the playoffs, Jones led the Braves to the World Series against the New York Yankees, in which the Braves were swept.

In February 2021, Jones was hired by the Atlanta Braves as a part-time hitting consultant. Due to his hitting consultant role within the organization, Jones received his second World Series championship ring when the Braves won the 2021 World Series.On August 16, 2012, Jones hit two home runs and collected his 2,700th hit. On September 12, 2012, Jones recorded his 1,500th walk in a game against the Milwaukee Brewers, becoming the first switch hitter in Major League Baseball history to obtain at least 2,500 hits, 1,500 RBIs, 1,500 runs and 1,500 walks. Jones also joined Stan Musial, Babe Ruth, Ted Williams, and Lou Gehrig as the only players in Major League history to record at least 2,500 hits, 1,500 walks, 1,500 runs, 500 doubles, 450 home runs, and 1,500 RBIs while hitting .300 with a .400 on-base percentage and .500 slugging percentage.On July 15, 2006, Jones recorded his 1,902nd career hit, to become the Atlanta Braves’ all-time hits leader, passing Dale Murphy. The next day he hit a home run to extend his extra-base hitting streak to 14 games, matching the Major League record set by Pittsburgh’s Paul Waner in 1927. A month later, on August 14, Jones had his first career three-home-run game. Jones homered in his final three at bats in the Braves’ 10–4 win over the Washington Nationals, finishing the night 4-for-5 with five RBIs. Despite successes at the plate, injuries dogged Jones throughout the season and for the first time in his career, the Braves failed to qualify for postseason play.On June 28, 2013, the Braves retired Jones’ number 10 and inducted him into the team’s Hall of Fame. On July 29, 2018, he was inducted into the National Baseball Hall of Fame in his first year of eligibility. Jones served as an ESPN color analyst in 2020. He returned to the Braves as an assistant hitting consultant in 2021.

During a 2014 winter storm, Jones rescued former teammate Freddie Freeman. Freeman was stuck in a traffic jam for hours. Jones came to the rescue on his ATV, and pulled Freeman out of the jam. At the start of the new year in 2016, the Atlanta Braves announced a “Chipper Rescues Freddie” bobblehead night for the upcoming season to honor the rescue.Jones ended his career hitting over .300 from each side of home plate. Among switch-hitters with at least 5,000 career at-bats, the only other player to do so is Frankie Frisch. He and Mickey Mantle are the only two switch-hitters in MLB history to have an on-base percentage of .400, slugging percentage of .500, and 400 homers in their careers. Jones also has the most RBIs of any player who was primarily a third baseman.

In 2001, a season of flux for the Braves who had won the NL East every year since their 1995 World Series victory, Jones was involved in a public “lingering feud” with former teammate John Rocker. Rocker referred to Jones on the radio by saying “Chip’s white trash” and “as two-faced as they came.” By late June, the two claimed they had made peace.Jones enjoys deer hunting. Jones was a co-owner of Outdoor Channel’s hunting show Buck Commander with friends and pro athletes Adam LaRoche, Ryan Langerhans, Tom Martin, and Willie Robertson. Currently, he is co-owner and co-host of the television show Major League Bowhunter airing on the Sportsman Channel, alongside long time friend Matt Duff.

In February 2013, the Atlanta Braves announced that they would induct Jones into the Braves Hall of Fame and retire his number, 10. Jones’s Braves Hall of Fame induction ceremony took place on June 28 during a luncheon at the Atlanta Marriott Marquis and featured speeches from former Braves players, including Hank Aaron. Jones’s number retirement ceremony also took place on June 28 prior to the Braves’ game against the Arizona Diamondbacks. Jones, who approached the podium as his former walk-up song (“Crazy Train” by Ozzy Osbourne) played in the background, was joined onstage by former Braves owner Ted Turner, Braves franchise president John Schuerholz, former Braves player Dale Murphy, then-current Braves player Dan Uggla, and former Braves manager Bobby Cox, as well as his parents and children. During his speech, Jones also recognized his former Braves teammates Martín Prado, Randall Delgado, and Eric Hinske, who were all traded to or signed by the Diamondbacks during that offseason. His number 10 is the eleventh number retired by the Braves franchise. Later that same year Chipper Jones’s number 10 jersey was also retired by the Durham Bulls on August 20.including Paul McCartney, Keith Richards, Mick Jagger, Eric Clapton, Jimmy Page, and Brian May. The guitar was bought for $2.7 million at a Qatar auction, with proceeds going to the Reach Out to Asia program, which works to ensure young people access to education.

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John Smoltz signed Official Major League Baseball. John Smoltz pitched for the Atlanta Braves for twenty years winning a Cy Young in 1996. Over the course of Smoltz’s career he went 213-155 and was selected to eight All-Star games. Smoltz also won a World Series championship with the Braves in 1995. John Smoltz was also inducted into the Baseball Hall of Fame in 2015.Chipper hand signed baseball. 2018 First Ballot Hall of Famer Chipper Jones signed All Star Baseball. Chipper played with Atlanta during his entire career, winning one World Series in 1995 and attending the All Star Game 8x. He was 1999 NL MVP and 2008 Batting Champion.

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All three had seen action down the stretch for Atlanta in 1993, with Tarasco appearing in 24 games, Klesko in 22 and Jones in eight (going 2-for-3 with a double and a walk in four plate appearances). Before ascending to the big-league club, the trio had been teammates at Triple-A Richmond in 1993 (Jones and Tarasco had also been part of a legendary 100-win team at Double-A Greenville the year before).The injury and the year layoff didn’t appear to be any problem for Jones, as it turned out. He drove in two runs with a pair of singles in a 12-5 victory over San Francisco on Opening Day, and hit his first career home run — a ninth-inning shot off Josias Manzanillo — to beat the New York Mets 3-2 at Shea Stadium on May 9. Chipper Jones’ trajectory from No. 1 draft pick to Rookie of the Year candidate to National League MVP to first-ballot Hall-of-Famer was more or less a smooth one, with one major exception. It was March 18, 1994 — 26 years ago this week — that Jones’ ascent from top prospect to “Face of the Atlanta Braves” hit its only major speedbump, when he suffered a season-ending knee injury during a spring training game against the New York Yankees. And it came in a spring in which the Braves had already lost one star player to injury.But Oliva also slumped his way out of the lineup by mid-May, and Klesko began to get locked in. Jones moved back to third base on May 17, and played there almost exclusively the rest of the way.

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Jones had still never played a regular season game at third base, but was handed the job as a 23-year-old rookie coming off major knee surgery during the abbreviated spring training in 1995. Schuerholz, Cox and Jones all downplayed the move to Tucker in the April 11 edition of the AJC.“Early in camp, Bobby (Cox) pulled me aside and said ‘I’ll tell you what I’m thinking. I don’t think Oliva can play every day at third, and I’d like to platoon Klesko in left. I think you’re a good enough athlete to play both. So I’m going to play you at third base against righties and left field against lefties.’”

As we know, Jones continued to establish himself as one of the best players in the game through the rest of the 1990s, culminating in his 1999 MVP season. In 157 games for the NL pennant winners, Jones batted .319/.441/.633 with 45 homers, 110 RBIs and 25 stolen bases.

Gant had signed a one-year, $5.5 million extension with the Braves for 1994, but broke his leg in a dirt bike accident in January and missed the entire season (because Gant’s injury occurred in a non-baseball fashion, the club ended up paying him only a portion of his salary before releasing him in mid-March). With a sudden hole in left field and in the middle of its lineup, Atlanta had to get creative.Klesko and Tarasco were considered excellent prospects, but it was Jones who was the jewel of the Braves’ minor-league system. The No. 1 overall pick in the 1990 draft, the switch-hitting Jones was Baseball America’s No. 1 prospect prior to 1993 and batted .325/.387/.500 with 13 homers and 89 RBIs before earning his call-up to Atlanta in September.

“I saw Leyritz coming toward me, so I planted my left leg to jump to the outside and avoid the tag. My knee exploded. The pop was so loud the whole stadium could hear it. … It was the most blinding pain I’ve ever felt in my life.”

Things were less settled in the infield, where both Blauser and Pendleton had been subpar in 1994. The Braves let Pendleton go as a free agent, and he signed with the Florida Marlins shortly after the Grissom trade.

Jones won a batting title at age 36 in 2008, setting career highs with a .364 batting average and .470 on-base percentage. Another torn ACL — this one in his right knee — ended Jones’ 2010 season after just 95 games, but he returned to play well in both 2011 and 2012 before hanging up his cleats for good at age 40.Jones is one of 22 players in MLB history to post at least a .300/.400/.500 batting line in 5,000 or more plate appearances. Only five of them — Ty Cobb, Stan Musial, Tris Speaker, Mel Ott and Babe Ruth — played in more career games than Jones did.

“He had done more than make the team,” Schuerholz told the AJC the following day, after an MRI confirmed Jones’ injury. “It would have been really fun watching him play all year.”

At least publicly, though, Jones was competing for the every-day left field job. On Feb. 27, 1994, I.J. Rosenberg wrote in the Atlanta Journal-Constitution that while Jones was a future star and Klesko a “big bat,” Tarasco — who had batted .330 at Richmond in 1993 — was “the favorite to take Gant’s job in left.”Justice missed a week this time, but Tarasco was unable to seize a full-time job. Klesko remained red-hot, and was hitting .395/.449/.814 with five homers by the time Justice returned to the lineup on April 18 in St. Louis.

Jones at first thought he had broken his left leg, but tests later revealed he had torn his anterior cruciate ligament. He was facing surgery, followed by a 10-to-12-month recovery.After beginning the season at third base, he was also playing a lot of left field. Klesko started the season in a 3-for-23 slump, getting benched in favor of Jones, with Oliva taking over at third.

Jones was elected to the Baseball Hall of Fame on the first ballot in 2018, receiving 97.2 percent of the vote. And he did it all despite missing what would have been his rookie year, and while playing the remainder of his career on a surgically repaired knee.Jones was in the lineup batting third that night, and homered off Yankees starter Terry Mulholland in top of the first inning. But in the fifth, disaster struck.

By the time the Braves got ready to face the Yankees in Fort Lauderdale on March 18, the left field race was still too close to call. Jones was hitting .364 with seven RBIs in 33 at-bats, while Tarasco was at .342 with a team-best 12 knocked in. Klesko was also holding his own at .265 with three RBIs.Jones’ versatility came into play again in 2002, when he moved to left field to make room for Vinny Castilla at third. That experiment lasted two-plus seasons, as Jones was back at the hot corner by the end of 2005.

It was of course a banner year for both Jones and the Braves. Jones finished the season batting .265/.353/.450 with 23 homers and 86 RBIs, finishing second in the Rookie of the Year voting to Dodgers pitcher Hideo Nomo, and also receiving some down-ballot MVP consideration.

In 2,499 career games, Jones batted .303/.401/.529 with 2,726 hits, 549 doubles, 468 homers, 1,623 RBIs and 150 stolen bases, good for 85.3 Wins Above Replacement. He added a .287/.409/.456 line with another 13 homers in 93 postseason games. Tarasco entered the game in the sixth after Justice sprained his ankle trying to beat out a throw at first. He struck out in his only plate appearance. Heading into 1995, the Braves appeared set in the outfield with Klesko in left, Grissom in center and Justice in right. Mike Kelly, Atlanta’s No. 1 pick in the 1991 draft, was given first opportunity to be Klesko’s platoon partner.Tarasco saw time in both right and left, batting .273/.313/.432 with 5 homers in 87 games. But once the strike was settled the following spring, he was traded to the Montreal Expos with center fielder Roberto Kelly (who had been acquired the previous May from Cincinnati in a trade for Sanders) and pitching prospect Esteban Yan for Marquis Grissom, then one of the elite center fielders and leadoff men in baseball.With Jones limited to pinch-hitting for a few days, Tarasco took advantage. He had four hits against the Los Angeles Dodgers on March 10, lifting his spring average to .409.

“Would I still be agile enough to play shortstop? Would I still be able to steal bases? Would I be fast enough to beat out infield singles and turn doubles into triples? Or had one misstep on the first baseline just ruined everything I was determined to do with my life?”Atlanta won its third straight NL West title in 1993, but moved to the NL East for 1994 after Major League Baseball re-aligned its divisions and created a wild-card playoff team in each league for the first time. Standout left fielder Ron Gant, who was coming off a 36-homer, 117-RBI season, wouldn’t be making that transition with the Braves.

Jones’ first postseason was an excellent one, as he batted .364/.446/.618 with three homers (including two in Game 1 against Colorado) and eight RBIs. Klesko also was a monster in the playoffs, bashing homers in three consecutive World Series games.Jones had surgery in Atlanta on April 4, the same day the Braves opened the 1994 season in San Diego. After a thigh injury slowed Tarasco late in the spring, Klesko ended up winning the left field job.

Jones put on a good face publicly, telling the AJC in an interview published March 23, “I don’t see why the Braves shouldn’t get the old Chipper Jones back.” But privately, he wondered if his career was in jeopardy.Justice missed just the one game, but tweaked his ankle again and left the lineup the next week against the Dodgers in Los Angeles. That provided another opportunity for Tarasco, who had two doubles and a homer in a 6-3 Braves win.

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