Chipper Jones

ll get to that point. 

I thought the Braves would put up more of a fight than they have, but Chipper Jones is clearly spiraling toward the end of his spectacular career. Like the Giants, the Braves don't score enough to rattle off consecutive victories at the right juncture in time. 

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Chase Utley, Texas’s blue-collar puma Lance Berkman, and the South’s true Southern man, Chipper Jones. While Jones approaches the .400 barrier set by Ted Williams in 1941, Utley chases Davey Johnson’s second baseman single season home run record and Lance Berkman pursues his elusive first MVP award. They’re the faces of the National League and will anchor the league’s attempt to end the rut that has driven the American League supremacy that is often over dwelled on numerous baseball analysis outlets.

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ge.  If he starts to run less in the second half he will lose almost all his value.

3)  Chipper Jones, 3B, Atlanta Braves:  His romance with .400 seems to be in the past as his batting average is down to .379 with a .258 start to July.  He can't seem to get out of his own way recently with numerous nagging injuries that have all but held him out of the lineup.  He will probably still be a solid player, but his age and injury history make him more of a candidate to fall back to the pack.

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Chipper Jones 3B – Atlanta Braves

The now ageless Chipper Jones is trying to accomplish something that is more elusive than Big Brown’s Triple Crown, or Alex Rodriguez’s World Series ring. He is trying to become the first player since Ted Williams in 1941, to hit .400. Many have tried, but all have failed in the 67 years since the milestone was last reached. As of July 5th, the severely slumping

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And probably not your own Braves, either. I watched them boot the ball around last night with a long-time Braves fan; three first-inning errors led to three runs, and they never recovered, losing 4-3, in a game without Chipper and a host of others.

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Imagine having a pitcher who could not only confound switch-hitting studs like Lance Berkman and Chipper Jones, but could easily throw a complete game with the same arm-fatigue associated with half that many innings.

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And it should tell us something about this year's Triple Crown contenders. Chipper Jones has a shot because of his .400-plus batting average (currently at .420), but his 15 HRs and 41 RBIs are trailing the leaders in those categories (21 HRs by Utley and 56 RBIs by Utley and Adrian Gonzalez). That average is going to be hard to reach, but Chipper's tendency towards injuries large and small mean he will likely continue to trail in the counting stats.

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sibly career-) ending injury, and not long after Pedro reached that same level.

Then, last night, Chipper Jones hit homer number 400, becoming the only switch hitter to reach that level while maintaining a career .300 average. This in a year where he's currently hitting .418, one of only 14 players since 1980 to be above .400 in June, guys with names like Boggs, Carew, Walker and Gwynn. One can only wonder how many more homers Chipper might have hit, if he hadn't fallen to injury so often in recent times--he hasn't played more than 150 games since 2003, and has only cracked 130 games twice since then. He's got a few more years in the majors, so we may see him hit 500, and perhaps pass Eddie Murray (504) or the Mick (536) in the switch-hitting home run department.

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