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This past season was rough, to say the least, for Chipper Jones. The venerable Braves third baseman posted the lowest batting average (.264) and slugging percentage (.430) that his 16-year (including the eight games in '93) has ever seen. The now-37-year-old Jones also saw his first sub-20 homer season as a full-time player. In fact, '09 was so bad for the face of the franchise (at least until J-Word starts tearing it up), that retirement talks were being floated by Hoss himself this offseason as he enters the first year of a three-year extension. Even with these pint-sized numbers, the Braves as a whole really did not suffer the fate many would have expected with those abysmal numbers from No. 10. They still won 86 games and were well within striking distance during the season's final wee ...

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