Avisail Garcia was the forgotten man in the Jake Peavy-Jose Iglesias three-teamer, but for fantasy players, his prognosis probably changed the most.
"The Red Sox got Jake Peavy; what a great addition!"
"The Tigers got Jose Iglesias; now they won't miss Jhonny Peralta so much!"
"The White Sox got Avisail Garcia. Whatever."
For real baseball, those were the general reactions to the late-July three-way trade between Detroit, Boston, and Chicago. Those were fair reactions; the contending teams got the help they needed, while the pointless White Sox added a player that will not keep them from being pointless.
For fantasy baseball, though, the reactions should be the opposite, as the trade didn't change much for the big guys. Peavy's value was basically unchanged with the move (a worse run environment, but a better chance at wins). Iglesias' value was artificially inflated by an unsustainable hot streak, and anyone with the super-smarts you obviously have (the fact that you're reading what I write shows you make smart decisions) knew not to put much stock in Iglesias.
On the other hand, Garcia went from a guy without a job, without a role, to a guy who had a full-time job. (Yes, the full-time job didn't totally arrive until the White Sox dealt Alex Rios to the Rangers, but the point still holds. We knew a Rios trade to somewhere was likely, so we should have known a Garcia job was equally likely.)
It's easy to parse Garcia's 2013 into three chunks - "full-time Tiger," "part-time Tiger," and "full-time White Sox." With the obvious caveat that I'm playing super fast and loose with arbitrary endpoints and small samples, these are Garcia's numbers in those chunks:
"The Red Sox got Jake Peavy; what a great addition!"
"The Tigers got Jose Iglesias; now they won't miss Jhonny Peralta so much!"
"The White Sox got Avisail Garcia. Whatever."
For real baseball, those were the general reactions to the late-July three-way trade between Detroit, Boston, and Chicago. Those were fair reactions; the contending teams got the help they needed, while the pointless White Sox added a player that will not keep them from being pointless.
For fantasy baseball, though, the reactions should be the opposite, as the trade didn't change much for the big guys. Peavy's value was basically unchanged with the move (a worse run environment, but a better chance at wins). Iglesias' value was artificially inflated by an unsustainable hot streak, and anyone with the super-smarts you obviously have (the fact that you're reading what I write shows you make smart decisions) knew not to put much stock in Iglesias.
On the other hand, Garcia went from a guy without a job, without a role, to a guy who had a full-time job. (Yes, the full-time job didn't totally arrive until the White Sox dealt Alex Rios to the Rangers, but the point still holds. We knew a Rios trade to somewhere was likely, so we should have known a Garcia job was equally likely.)
It's easy to parse Garcia's 2013 into three chunks - "full-time Tiger," "part-time Tiger," and "full-time White Sox." With the obvious caveat that I'm playing super fast and loose with arbitrary endpoints and small samples, these are Garcia's numbers in those chunks:
AB | R | H | RBI | HR | BA | OBP | SLG |