WASHINGTON — Adam Jones doesn’t like change.



It’s not uncommon among baseball players who thrive on routine and schedule to become averse to anything that disrupts that. Jones has no problem admitting he loathes the unknown. He’s always liked simple things: family, food, baseball. The color red. The irony that he dons this color every day now, following the biggest upheaval in his professional life, isn’t lost on him.



“You know I don’t like change,” Jones said Thursday afternoon, perched in the visiting dugout at Nationals Park, less than 50 miles from where he left a legacy in Baltimore. “I had a great time, 11 years in one place. I thought it would last longer, maybe 14 or 15 years. It didn’t. That’s not going to take away my love and passion for this game and the people that supported me.”



Wearing Arizona red shorts and a Field & Stream camouflage long sleeve T-shirt, Jones has...