Following up on
yesterday's post, I would venture to say that the Alex Cintron-for-Jeff Bajenaru trade was Kenny Williams' best of the entire season, and it's not particularly close.
Not only did Kenny acquire a useful player for somebody who seems unable to contribute at the major-league level, but I generally have no qualms about the way Cintron was used. Ozzie Guillen let Juan Uribe play during his two good months, and used Cintron liberally the rest of the way.
The only times I could complain were when Cintron started at DH, and that
happened twice this year. He went 1-for-8 in the role and stranded eight runners.
Kenny made eight trades in all this season, and while I'll go through them all later in the day, I figured we could get a head start on the discussion. Here's the slate of moves Williams made this season:
- Alex Cintron for Jeff Bajenaru
- Jim Thome for Aaron Rowand, Gio Gonzalez and Daniel Haigwood
- Matt Thornton for Joe Borchard
- Rob Mackowiak for Damaso Marte
- Javier Vazquez for Chris Young, Orlando Hernandez and Luis Vizcaino
- Sandy Alomar Jr. for B.J. LaMura
- Mike MacDougal for Tyler Lumsden and Daniel Cortes
- David Riske for Javier Lopez
When you factor in 1) what we received, 2) what we gave up, and 3) how well Ozzie used them, how would you rank these deals?