Braves - Acquired Hollandsworth

Atlanta Braves - Acquired OF Todd Hollandsworth from the Chicago Cubs for P Todd Blackford and P Angelo Burrows.

With both Lawton and Hollandsworth gone, one after the other, one has to think that Jim Hendry has figured out that you deal with Dusty Baker as you would a 5-year-old around dangerous household chemicals - put Mr. Yuck stickers on the bottle and safely store them out of the youngster’s irresponsible hands.  Todd Hollandworth isn’t needed to clean the kitchen floor, so Hendry could do even better and give him to the neighbor.  Blackford has improved from a terrible professional debut and Burrows is a better reliever than he was an outfielder, but it’s highly unlikely that either will ever play in the majors, let alone be of any value.

Hollandsworth will be pure role player in Atlanta, a task which he can handle and he will be playing for a manager who has a functioning adult brain.

2005 ZiPS Projection - Todd Hollandsworth
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Period      AB   R    H  2B 3B  HR RBI  BB  SO  SB    BA   OBP   SLG 
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Actual ‘05 268  23   68  17  2   5  35  18  53   4  .254  .301  .388

Rest ‘05    61   6   16   4  0   1   8   5  12   1  .262  .318  .377
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Total ‘05  329  29   84  21  2   6  43  23  65   5  .255  .304  .386

Proj. ‘06  276  27   70  17  2   6  33  23  54   3  .254  .311  .395