White Sox - Acquired Blum
Chicago White Sox - Acquired 3B Geoff Blum from the San Diego Padres for P Ryan Meaux.
The White Sox are just picking up a little depth here, but there’s nothing wrong with that as they’re virtually guaranteed a playoff spot at this point. Ozuna remains the preferred infield backup at this point, but Blum will get at-bats too (no reason not to give more days off at this point) and I’d rather have Blum on the team for double-switches come playoff time than Willie Harris. Meaux’s a replaceable part - an older relief prospect who will probably have a career as a 2nd or 3rd bullpen lefty (he was acquired in the Lofton trade).
2005 ZiPS Projection - Geoff Blum
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Period AB R H 2B 3B HR RBI BB SO SB BA OBP SLG
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Actual ‘05 224 26 54 13 1 5 22 24 28 3 .241 .321 .375
Rest ‘05 124 17 32 8 0 3 17 11 17 1 .258 .324 .395
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Total ‘05
2005 ZiPS Projection - Ryan Meaux
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Period W L G GS IP H ER HR BB SO ERA
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Actual ‘05* 4 3 38 0 66 65 30 7 23 49 4.09
Rest ‘05 2 2 13 3 36 35 16 2 15 26 4.00
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* - Includes MLE
Dan Szymborski
Posted: July 31, 2005 at 08:07 PM |
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1. VG Posted: July 31, 2005 at 10:22 PM (#1513910)I sincerely hope that Ozzie Guillen has the opportunity to enact some double switches in October.
Meaux has a realistic chance of being a useful bullpen part for a few years, so he should have more value to the Padres than Blum would post-Randa trade.
A dull trade, but one useful to both teams. The lack of comments are probably most closely tied to the fact that there really aren't any negative comments to make about the trade - it's one that makes good sense for both teams.
No. Blum will occasionally spell Crede to give him a day off, I am guessing.
Aw, what the hell, they didn't replace Marte or Crede, so who cares. Well, maybe they replaced Crede.
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