Royals - Acquired Gload
Kansas City Royals - Acquired 1B/OF Ross Gload from the Chicago White Sox for P Andy Sisco.
Gload’s always been a player who deserved a fair chance in the majors and moving to the Royals increases the chances he’ll get it. The Royals are picking him up mainly for short-term needs, however, as the organization has a good amount of talent on that end of the defensive spectrum. While the projection looks high to the eye, Gload’s hit well when he’s had regular playing time and he’s a career 350/444 hitter in the majors when not pinch-hitting. Gload hasn’t shown a platoon split in the majors (in fact, he’s had a reverse one) and doesn’t have much of a glove anywhere. The Sox offense would have been even better if they had used him over Scott Podsednik in left more. The Royals screwed the pooch with Matt Diaz, so here’s hoping they don’t make the same mistake with Ross Gload.
Sisco followed up an impressive 2005 with a very unimpressive 2006 season. He’ll always walk too many batters and allow a few too many homers than one would like, but he’s not a 7.10 ERA pitcher. Like most relievers, his ability is somewhere in the middle.
2007 ZiPS Projections
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Player AB R H 2B 3B HR RBI BB SO SB BA OBP SLG
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Gload 212 29 64 15 1 6 29 31 30 1 .302 .350 .467
2007 ZiPS Projections
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Player W L G GS IP H ER HR BB SO ERA
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Sisco 2 3 66 0 69 66 38 10 38 64 4.96
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Dan Szymborski
Posted: December 17, 2006 at 12:35 AM |
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1. stealfirstbase Posted: December 17, 2006 at 02:31 AM (#2263473)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 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 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.
When Thome gets that back injury, even if it's in 2008, are you going to say "I told you so!"? 8-)
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