Phillies - Acquired Garcia

Philadelphia Phillies - Acquired P Freddy Garcia from the Chicago White Sox for P Gio Gonzalez and P Gavin Floyd.

When you’re an OK National League team, you’re always in a win-now situation, it seems.  The Phils cash in two prospects, one promising, one disappointing, for an extra starter to eat innings.  By my accounts, the Phillies now have to many starters for the rotation, so look for them to trade one (Lieber?) or convince one of them that they would totally prefer to be a reliever.  The White Sox look to have a Buehrle/Contreras/Garland/Vazquez/McCarthy rotation next year, assuming that they don’t trade Jon Garland to one of the rumored teams.  Gonzalez still has good upside, but he’s not near ready yet and while Floyd should be a major-league calibre pitcher by now, it hasn’t clicked for him (and possibly never will).

2007 ZiPS Projections 
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Player      W   L   G  GS   IP    H   ER  HR  BB  SO   ERA
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Floyd       6  12  30  28  173  199  118  32  82 100  6.14

Garcia     13  11  32  32  214  211  103  26  59 166  4.33

Gonzalez    6  13  26  26  147  164  110  38  85 113  6.73
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