Jones to Detroit: Another Middling Free Agent Falls
Slowly, but surely, Jim Hendry is ridding the Cubs of his middling free agent acquisition mistakes. Neifi Perez to the Detroit Tigers. Glendon Rusch to injury. The latest is Jacque Jones to the Tigers (oh, how we love the Tigers). Ryan Dempster, Jason Marquis, and Scott Eyre: be ready.
The Cubs are also sending the Tigers some cash, though we do not yet know how much. It seems likely to be at least the $1.3M in signing bonus money Jones is due in January.
In exchange, the Cubs get Jose Macias (man, Derek, you're too quick with that joke). To be fair, Omar Infante is younger and probably better than Macias was when the Cubs acquired him in December 2003. He did, after all, post a 101 OPS+ as a full-time second baseman and 22-year-old in 2004. In any event, as the aforementioned Mr. Smart notes, something else could happen yet this offseason to make the acquisition of Infante make more sense.
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Jones
Trading Jones is a good and necessary step, but I instinctively feel that Hendry got Infante because he felt the Cubs could use Infante somehow. I'm sure the nondescript A-baller that Derek alludes to was available if Hendry wanted him.
Tigers Cut Jacque Jones
A little over a month into the season and the Tigers have already decided to eat the remaining portion of Jones' multi-million dollar contract. Jones was hitting just .165/.244/.253 this season in 24 games.