Has this been posted already? If so, then I am sorry, but I just found it pretty interesting

 

 

Given all the speculation of Kenny Williams's next move to fix his stumbling White Sox, I thought it would be useful to pull together a history of all the trades he's made since 2001. Download chicago_white_sox_williams.xls to take a look at that in an Excel file.

 

As far as Kenny's July tendencies, he's made such acquisitions as Roberto Alomar, Carl Everett, Scott Schoeneweis, Carl Everett again, and Jose Contreras in the past. But Williams's signature trades have come in the winter: David Wells, Todd Ritchie, Billy Koch, Bartolo Colon, Juan Uribe, Scott Podsednik, Jim Thome, and Javier Vazquez.

 

The exception, and Williams's biggest summertime trade, was his acquisition of Freddy Garcia in late June of 2004. The Sox smartly made this trade with three full months left in the season. Williams surrendered highly touted outfield prospect Jeremy Reed in the deal, and he certainly got the best of Bill Bavasi so far. Ditto for his other swap with Bavasi - Joe Borchard for Matt Thornton.

 

Williams doesn't really have any favorite GM buddies to lean on for trades; his 38 deals since '01 are spread out among many. Jim Bowden is in the lead with three trades, but all were minor (Anthony Sanders, Scott Dunn/D'Angelo Jimenez, Jerry Owens/Alex Escobar). Among current GMs, Williams has a history with Bowden, Bavasi, Brian Sabean, Dave Littlefield, Bill Stoneman, Kevin Towers, Billy Beane, Josh Byrnes, Brian Cashman, Omar Minaya, Dan O'Dowd, Ned Coletti, Theo Epstein, Pat Gillick, Doug Melvin, and Dayton Moore. He's definitely shown a tendency to trade with newly anointed general managers like Moore and Gillick, among others.

Edited July 27, 200619 yr by southsideirish

Interesting read. Thanks for posting that.

There are some unspecified minor leaguers in that spreadsheet I'd be interesting in knowing.

sullivan was for tim hummell

gio was in the thome deal

I'd say his worst trade would have to be that Todd Ritchie trade...and that isn't even looking that bad anymore since Wells and Fogg really haven't developed into anything special.

I'd say his worst trade would have to be that Todd Ritchie trade...and that isn't even looking that bad anymore since Wells and Fogg really haven't developed into anything special.

What? Are you serious?

 

KW didn't do that, just FYI.

What? Are you serious?

 

KW didn't do that, just FYI.

 

Yes, although it's an interesting document he has there, it's not complete and has the obvious error with the Schueler Todd Ritchie trade.

I thought Schueler recomended it but KW is the one who made the trade.

Acquired closer Billy Koch and two minor leaguers from Oakland in exchange for pitcher Keith Foulke, catcher Mark Johnson, minor league pitcher Joe Valentine, Neal Cotts, and cash considerations.

Cotts was actually sent from Oakland to Chicago, not Chicago to Oakland. Funny how he was one of the "two minor leaguers"

What? Are you serious?

 

KW didn't do that, just FYI.

 

Yah, I remember reading that. Totally forgot about Schueler's involvement on that one.