Nolan Jones
Bats: LThrows: RAge: 27Season: 2025
2025 Season Stats
AVG
.211
OPS
0.597
HR
5
RBI
34
R
33
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CLE • Outfielder • #22
about 2 months ago
It’s likely a season-ending injury for Jones, even if Cleveland winds up making the postseason. The 27-year-old corner outfielder has batted just .211/.296/.304 with five homers and eight steals in 136 games.
CLE • Outfielder • #22
2 months ago
Jones’ home run was just his fifth of the year. While the 27-year-old outfielder has been a bust this year, he displayed all the skills that made him an interesting fantasy entity before the season on Friday. Jones hit a solo home run off tiring starter George Kirby in the seventh inning and lead-off the ninth inning with a double as the tying-run. Jones is hitting .219 with a .632 OPS and 31 RBI on the season.
CLE • Outfielder • #22
3 months ago
Kyle Manzardo had the game-ending hit off Griffin Jax after the Rays failed to score in their half of the 10th. Jones already had a single on the day before his 428-foot blast. It was just his second start in seven games, but he might have a bigger role going forward with the Guardians seemingly partly or fully moving on from Carlos Santana. Jones is batting just .215/.309/.305 in 344 plate appearances, but Statcast thinks he’s been pretty unlucky. Today’s homer was only his fifth, even though he has 18 barrels. His hard-hit rate sits at 47%, and his 26.7% strikeout rate, while not great, is considerably better than his career mark of 30.4%.
CLE • Outfielder • #22
4 months ago
Jones smacked a two-out triple off of Jonathan Cannon in the eighth inning but wound up stranded there. He then led off the seventh inning with a single and scored the go-ahead run on an RBI double off the bat of Angel Martinez. With his two-hit effort, Jones is now hitting .233/.320/.338 with just three homers, 23 RBI and six stolen bases on the season.
CLE • Outfielder • #22
5 months ago
Even with the Guardians facing a right-handed pitcher, Jones will head to the bench with Angel Martinez playing center field and Lane Thomas shifting over to right field. Jones’ swing decisions and contact metrics look good, but he’s hitting just .238/.340/.357 in 18 games in June with one home run and one steal. He can be left on the wire in most leagues.
CLE • Outfielder • #22
5 months ago
Jones had been relegated to a strong-side platoon earlier in the season, but he has now started back-to-back games against left-handed starting pitchers and five of the last seven. Over his last 23 games, Jones is hitting .300 with 10 RBI, four runs scored and a 13/1 K/BB ratio. While the batting average is nice, and the playing time is there, it would be good to see a bit more power out of Jones before we start to think about rostering him in most fantasy leagues.
CLE • Outfielder • #22
5 months ago
Jones is starting to get a little something going, having collected eight hits and six RBI in his last four games. He didn’t even start the first of those, only entering after Steven Kwan got hurt. The surge has lifted his OPS from .536 to .607 and should ensure that he remains in the lineup against righties for now.
CLE • Outfielder • #22
6 months ago
It’s the first three-hit game of the year for Jones, who has lacked much in the way of luck this season. He came into the day hitting .175 in spite of possessing the best hard-hit rate and lowest strikeout rate of his career. He’s been a part-timer of late, but he would be looking at a larger role if Kwan requires an IL stint.
CLE • Outfielder • #22
6 months ago
Jones’s second homer of the year was a 422-footer of Jake Irvin. The 388-foot double came in his next at-bat and would have been a homer in seven ballparks. Jones has been one of the game’s unluckiest hitters, according to Statcast, so things have been due to turn around. He entered the day with a .156/.278/.260 line in spite of a 57% hard-hit rate.
CLE • Outfielder • #22
6 months ago
Both times against righties. The Guardians are giving more opportunity to Jhonkensy Noel, and it’s coming at Jones’ expense. Unfortunately, Jones’ sterling 58 percent hard-hit rate just hasn’t resulted in much production thus far, as he’s batting .171/.284/.286. That he has the best contact and exit velocity numbers of his career should pay off at some point.
CLE • Outfielder • #22
7 months ago
The surface-level stats for Jones are not great. He’s hitting .190/.311/.317 on the season with one home run and five RBI. However, he has hit second or clean-up against right-handed pitching, and many of the plate discipline and contact metrics look much better under the hood. You shouldn’t add Jones now outside of the deepest possible formats, but he is a player to at least keep on your radar in case the process stats start to carry over onto the field.
CLE • Outfielder • #22
7 months ago
A nice day that could have been better; Jones’s homer was a 399-footer that would have been a homer in 12 ballparks, and he had a 107-mph grounder that turned into a double play. Jones is still batting just .174/.309/.261, but 19 of his 30 balls in play have been hard hit. He seems to be on his way back to being a useful outfielder for a major league team. Whether it will result in much fantasy value away from Coors Field remains to be seen.