Brewers - Acquired Gerut

One of the larger travesties in recent years was last year's NL Comeback Player of the Year Award. Brad Lidge was given the reward for the amazing accomplishment of "coming back" from a horrific 3.36 ERA while Gerut merely came back from not having played baseball for 3 years.

2009's been less kind to Gerut, who's off to a miserable start, and he'll serve as the 4th outfielder and primary backup at all 3 outfield positions for the Brewers. While Gwynn's off to a good start for Nashville, he's never really played well anywhere professionally and I'm surprised the Padres couldn't even get a AAA suspect who's not already going on 27.

2009 ZIPS Projection - Jody Gerut
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                AB    R    H  2B  3B  HR  RBI   BB   SO  SB   BA  OBP  SLG
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Year-to-Date   112   17   25   6   0   4   14    5   22   2 .223 .256 .384
Rest-of-Year   265   37   74  16   1  11   35   23   40   4 .278 .335 .472
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Total          377   54   99  22   1  15   49   28   62   6 .262 .313 .446

2009 ZIPS Projection - Anthony Gwynn
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                AB    R    H  2B  3B  HR  RBI   BB   SO  SB   BA  OBP  SLG
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Year-to-Date   153   29   42   6   1   1    7   18   20  14 .275 .349 .346
Rest-of-Year   323   42   83  10   2   2   22   27   52  18 .256 .314 .311
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Total          476   71  125  16   3   3   29   45   72  32 .262 .325 .323

Year-to-date totals include minor-league translations, if applicable.