Tuesday, June 14, 2005

Revisiting One of Last Year's Big Trades

About this time last year a trade was made between the Mariners and the White Sox. The Mariners sent Freddie Garcia to Chicago in exchange for catcher Miguel Olivo and centerfielder Jeremy Reed. Let's take a look how they're working out this year:

Olivo: 110 AB / 2 HR / 14 RBI / .145 BA / .174 OBA / .236 SLG
Reed: 193 AB / 2 HR / 20 RBI / .259 BA / .335 OBA / .368 SLG

Garcia: 6-3 / 88.0 IP / 59 K / 21 BB / 3.78 ERA

It seems clear that Chicago got the best of this trade. Now - Reed may still blossom into a star but Olivo? Not so much. In fact he's already been sent down to Tacoma. Garcia is only 28 and trading him now looks like a mistake.

With the catching a big question (Pat Borders and Dan Wilson?) - maybe the Mariners would be interested in Kelly Stoppach?

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