Red Sox acquire Brian Anderson from White Sox.

by Allen Chace on Jul 28, 2009 4:07 PM EDT in News

Purely a depth move here, as Brian Anderson has been struggling to hit in Chicago.

Once again. Depth. Insurance for Baldelli. We didn't acquire a guy with a .652 OPS over 862 PAs in order to trade Jacoby Ellsbury.

In exchange, the White Sox will receive $$ and Mark Kotsay to bolster their bench. No official announcement to the effect has been made yet, but Anderson should be headed to Pawtucket unless someone is injured.

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Seriously?

Why make a bench move? Don’t we already have one of the best outfields in all of baseball? Bay, Ellsbury, and Drew (maybe not this year though). Why take a guy who is batting worse than the guy we traded him for? Anderson has a lowe AVG, less HR’s, and was even in the minors. Why make this move? Unless it’s to free up some money then I don’t get it.

by RockofAges on Jul 28, 2009 4:13 PM EDT reply actions

Oops

Sorry, so he doesn’t have worse HR’s or RBI’s, but still. My point still stands that I don’t get why this move was made.

by RockofAges on Jul 28, 2009 4:14 PM EDT up reply actions

As the title suggested...

This is purely a “depth” move, and I’m guessing Anderson will be replacing the recently released Paul McAnulty (sp?) in Pawtucket. I have a feeling Baldelli is ailing right now, as we have yet to see him play after the ASB, even with Drew struggling pretty horrifically. Kotsay wasn’t going to get us any draft picks if we has signed by another club after the 10 day waiting period, so at least we got something in return for him.

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by nepats108 on Jul 28, 2009 4:24 PM EDT up reply actions

Whoops...

I guess the title didn’t suggest it, just the sub-headline.

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by nepats108 on Jul 28, 2009 4:25 PM EDT up reply actions

Kotsay was already DFA’ed. So if he walked at the end of the 10 days we get NOTHING for him. This way we get SOMETHING. Same with the Lugo trade. Maybe Duncan isn’t great but we got something for him. We aren’t going to see Brian a whole lot at all.

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by Rogue Nine on Jul 28, 2009 4:31 PM EDT up reply actions

I think Anderson has an option remaining.

So we can send him down to the minors without passing him through waivers. We cannot do that with Kotsay. I think that is the only reason we did it.

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by BTLove on Jul 28, 2009 5:58 PM EDT up reply actions

At least, Anderson is only 27.

Anderson can play all three OF positions. I feel like he is our new JvE. We’re not going to see much of him unless there’s an injury, but he’s pretty flexible, which is nice.

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by Randy Booth on Jul 28, 2009 4:24 PM EDT reply actions

Indeed. Quite.

Maybe he’ll get to pitch run for Papi after the roster is expanded. One time only, he better make the most of it.

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by nepats108 on Jul 28, 2009 4:29 PM EDT up reply actions

I know nothing about Anderson.

Could he help?

by SoxAcumen on Jul 28, 2009 4:42 PM EDT reply actions

Not a whole lot, his career average over 700 + ABs is something less than .230 I think. He’s pretty young but hasn’t shown a whole lot. Has late season bench depth written all over him.

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by Rogue Nine on Jul 28, 2009 4:51 PM EDT up reply actions