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Brandon Jones, the onetime Mississippi Braves star, was named hitter of the week in the independent Can-Am League on Tuesday. Jones went 11-for-24 with six RBIs last week and is batting .288 with a homer and 19 RBIs on the year for the New Jersey Jackals. Jones, who got some big league time with Atlanta, spent last season with the Kansas City T-Bones of the indy American Association and hit .326 with 14 homers and 73 RBIs. P.S. The Jackals released former M-Braves standout Cody Johnson on Tuesday. The much-traveled Johnson, a former first-round pick by Atlanta, has now been released by three different teams this season. He began the year in the New York Yankees system and later played for York in the Atlantic League. The strikeout-prone Johnson has 144 career minor league homers and a .245 average.