Jones also spent time as the pitching coach for both the Don Bosco Prep and Montclair Mounties varsity baseball teams.

Around the All-Star break, he spent a month with the Colorado Springs Sky Sox (Pacific Coast League, Triple-A).

Jones made his major league debut at Shea Stadium against his boyhood team, the New York Mets.

He was a non-roster invitee in 2004 Boston Red Sox spring training and made the big club from there, but then went into rehabilitation.

After a brief stint with the independent Newark Bears of the Atlantic League in 2005, the Chicago White Sox picked him up and assigned him to Triple-A Charlotte.