Avisail Garcia

[Ron Robinsons Beard]

The White Sox are apparently making Avisail Garcia available in a trade:

 

He had a down year last year while fighting injury, but was terrific in 2017. He's only 27 years old, so still in his theoretical prime. He's not known as a great defensive RF, but has a cannon for an arm. To me, he looks like a player than may show more consistency than Domingo Santana, definitely with less swing-and-miss tendencies. Feinsand's tweet indicates he is a possible non-tender if not traded, so I can't imagine the prospect price is going to be too awfully high.

 

Thoughts?

[KeithStone53151]

Him being this available hurts Santana's trade value. I'd be more interested in him if Braun was moving to 1b or we had a need. But we really don't, Garcia isn't the type of guy you want as a 4th OF. He'll probably end up in Miami or Baltimore or some 2nd division team on the cheap.

[long ball]

Statcast has him at +5 for outs above average in 2018. DRS has consistently rated his arm as slightly above average in RF. So he might be a pretty solid defender in RF even if UZR and DRS don't look very favorable.

 

He's had one amazing season and otherwise pretty bad at the plate.

 

Probably only interesting as a free agent if he's non-tendered because he doesn't fit on this team at a ~$8m salary, IMO.

[bill hAll Star]

For most of his career, Garcia bordered on being Schoop of the OF except he gets a bit more LD/GB than FB as compared to Schoop over his career, leaving for a safer average (Schoop-esque hot streaks of doubles and not HRs like the streaks are for Schoop). Both of them swing at everything.

 

Garcia did seem to improve his launch angle this past year and could be a 30+ HR candidate. He'd basically be bizarro Domingo at that point as a low OBP/high average guy with terrible pitch recognition. Domingo is high OBP/not as great average with maybe the some HR potential if you think that Avisail has turned the corner in getting the ball in the air more.

 

His very good 2017 was a BABIP mirage most likely.

[trwi7]

Why? We have nowhere to play him and he's not very good anyways.

[Ron Robinsons Beard]

Why? We have nowhere to play him and he's not very good anyways.

 

Yeah, you are probably right. The thought was just trying to cut down on the swing-and-miss tendencies. It is sickening sometimes watching how much this team K's it's way out of scoring opportunities as currently constructed.

[RollieTime]

I would pass on Garcia. His offensive profile doesn’t fit what Stearns looks for. Won’t steal bases, strikes out 25% of the time, and doesn’t work in many walks into his already low batting average. He had one outlier season and hasn’t been too productive of a big leaguer outside of that season.

[Outlander]

He will probably make close to Schoop like money for arbitration and hard to justify that with Santana on the team or being a 4th outfielder.

[reillymcshane]

I would count on Santana rebounding to his 2017 form rather than Garcia getting back to his 2017 production. And Santana at least plays a bit of defense. Garcia is pretty bad in the field. Pass.

[KeithStone53151]

In addition to all the reasons noted above, I think Santana rebounds in a big way this year. He's clearly a talented guy, and losing playing time like he did has a way of motivating people to put in the work. See Wade Miley's 2018 season, and every guy that has a big year in a contract year.

[TURBO]

I still think Santana is a guy who needs to play everyday. He isn't going to get that in Milwaukee.

[long ball]

I still think Santana is a guy who needs to play everyday. He isn't going to get that in Milwaukee.

 

The likelihood of Braun and Aguilar being worthy of 500 PAs in 2019 doesn’t feel very high.

 

There will be PAs for Santana if he’s still with the brewers.

[jerichoholicninja]

Why? We have nowhere to play him and he's not very good anyways.

 

Pretty much this. An average, at best, bat with horrible defense that grades out to a hair over 0 WAR player over his career outside of his career year. I really don't know why he would be considered by Milwaukee (or anyone for that matter) outside of a minor league.