Williams is certainly piling up arms for the long term. In the past year he's made one big move for pitching:

Chris Young et al. for Vazquez

but he's also traded:

Joe Borchard for Matt Thornton
Those two minor leaguers who names I'm forgetting (not bad prospects) for Mike MacDougal
Neal Cotts for David Aardsma
Ross Gload for Andy Sisco

Each of these guys can hit between 95 and 98 on their fastballs. Each of them is under team control for at least 4 years. That's 2/3 of a good bullpen.

Additionally, he traded

Javier Lopez (the crappy one) for one year of David Riske.
One year of Freddy Garcia for Gio Gonzalez and Gavin Floyd.

So Williams has been on some kind of pitching depth and bullpen jag for about a year now. The only guys the team might miss are Neal Cotts, Chris Young and possibly Freddy Garcia.

The minor leaguers are Tyler Lumsden and Daniel Cortes.

As a player-for-player trade this seems reasonable. I just don't see where Gload fits in the Royals picture. The starting outfield is DeJesus, Brown/Sanders, and Teahen. Backups Gathright and Costa, with Huber in the minors. Now Gload's in the mix. It seems like one or more trades is warranted, or else Costa spending the season in the minors.

possibly Freddy Garcia.

FYI-Garcia's VORP over the past three seasons is higher than Meche or Lily's-combined

Ross Gload = No more playing time for Esteban German

Why does Gload (career 78/34 K/BB in the majors, 527/281 in the minors) project to have more walks than strikeouts?

The overall projection looks about right, but that K/BB thing is quite strange.

Why does Gload (career 78/34 K/BB in the majors, 527/281 in the minors) project to have more walks than strikeouts?

The overall projection looks about right, but that K/BB thing is quite strange.

He has the walk total wrong, 31 would give him an OBP around .391.

The walk total is an error and possibly a function of playing time projections. Assuming no SH/SF/HBP, Gload would need half that number of walks to have a projected OBA of .350.

The upside for the White Sox is that this opens up a bench slot for the fourth outfielder they so desperately need.

The downside is that when Thome goes on the disabled list with his inevitable back injury, we'll be seeing Pablo Ozuna, Designated Hitter.

Maybe "He was seen eating a taco in the first inning" has a different meaning in Mexico than it does here

Should be 15 walks and 30 RBI - I re-wrote the runs for RBI and the RBI as walks.

Gload actually seems to hit lefties better than righties. Now I really don't see where he fits in as there doesn't seem to be an apparent platoon on this team compatible with that.

Primey for #10!

The downside is that when Thome goes on the disabled list with his inevitable back injury, we'll be seeing Pablo Ozuna, Designated Hitter.

Nah, it'll be Mackowiak or Fields.

The downside is that when Thome goes on the disabled list with his inevitable back injury, we'll be seeing Pablo Ozuna, Designated Hitter.

When Thome gets that back injury, even if it's in 2008, are you going to say "I told you so!"? 8-)