​He’s Jahmai Fitzgerald Jones and he comes from suburban Atlanta, which seemingly produces more baseball talent than just about anywhere else in America right now (though the most notable alumn from his prep school is former Pats center David Andrews).AdvertisementAdvertisementAdvertisementJones was a second round draft pick back in 2015 and cracked the Baseball Prospectus top-100 prospect list three years in a row from 2017 through 2019. But despite his pedigree, he’s never managed to hold onto a big league starting job and now finds himself in his sixth organization. The Red Sox acquired him yesterday for a player to be named later after he was designated for assignment by the Tigers.He’s an outfielder but, despite being pretty fast (he ranks in the 84th percentile for sprint speed this year) he’s not a very good one. In fact, with a weak arm and unimpressive range, he’s spent more time at DH than he has in the field. He was mostly a second baseman in the minors, as well, and can occasionally moon light there at the big league level.He was very good at one specific thing last year: hitting lefties. He slashed a Rob Refsnyderesque .288/.393/.577 against lefties in 2025, with 7 homers in just 104 at-bats, good for an OPS+ of 173. He also tends to do most of his damage in the air and on the pull side, which, at Fenway Park, is deadly for opposing pitchers.AdvertisementAdvertisementAdvertisementUnfortunately, that small sample size of success he had last year is the only success he’s ever had at the big league level. After recording career-best marks in both strikeout and walk rate in 2025, those numbers are back to his career average in 2026, leading him to put up an ugly .137/.219/.221 line with just 2 homers, with the vast majority of that anti-production coming against lefties.When he gets a hold of one he can really mash. Here he is sending a ball to Albert Belle territory.Saying something to Jahmai Webster from across the diamond using the super secret sign language that all Jahmai’s know and won’t tell you about.AdvertisementAdvertisementAdvertisementJones seems like a classic example of swing-fix candidate, someone the front office would stick in AAA for a few weeks in hopes of getting him back to where he was last year. But here’s the problem with that: he’s out of minor league options and can’t be sent to Worcester. Any fixing the Sox attempt will have to be done in the majors.If they can get him to be more productive, he could play a valuable role on this team as a platoon outfielder who can get Jarren Duran’s bat out of the lineup against lefties. But there’s a good chance that that’s just wishful thinking and that he could be DFA’d for the second time this season before you know it.