December 12, 2002
Reds to Red Sox:
The Boston Red Sox have acquired Todd Walker from the Cincinnati Reds. I've always liked Walker. At some point, he fell into Tom Kelly's doghouse, but I thought that was unfair. He did a good job of replacing Knoblauch, and has respectable batting stats for a second baseman. And he's much better than Rey Sanchez. Sanchez was a .275 BA and nothing else. Walker has a career .292 BA, with a .349 OBA (.311 for Sanchez) and a .435 slugging percentage (.338 for Sanchez). And Walker is 5 1/2 years younger. The trade doesn't do anything to address the rebuilding of the farm system, but it makes the Red Sox a better team this year.
Posted by David Pinto at
11:12 PM
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