clipped from sports.yahoo.com
The Los Angeles Dodgers, all but comatose for the first 73 hours of the winter meetings, came to a preliminary agreement with free-agent center fielder Andruw Jones on an oddly structured two-year, $36.2 million contract early Thursday morning. Jones will take a physical early next week and an official announcement of the signing should come shortly thereafter.
The deal provides the Dodgers with the big bat in the middle of the lineup they sorely need – provided Jones’ skills aren’t prematurely declining and he rebounds to his pre-2007 form. The 30-year-old right-handed hitter had 368 home runs and 1,117 RBIs in 12 seasons with the Atlanta Braves, including 51 home runs in 2005.
