Detroit – Ask Tigers center fielder JaCoby Jones about his mindset heading into spring training and he will give you the same answer he gave you the year before and the year before that: “It’s the same,” he said. “I am just excited to back to spring training, excited to get back to competing.”
But he knows this year is different. He’s heard what general manager Al Avila has said. That one of the organizational tasks in 2019 is to determine if Jones can be the everyday center fielder going forward.
Avila said it again at TigerFest last weekend.