Juan Francisco has done nothing but produce at every level of the minors he's been in, cranking out 2B's, HR's and a lot of RBI's. END has a career major league slash of 0.285 / 0.330 / 0.477, and projecting his career major league #'s over a full season, he has 100 RBI's too.

I realize that Walt perfers lite-hitting singles hitters who are decent all-around players and great at generating LOB's over guys like END (who may be 1-dimensional, but can drive in tons of RBI's) and thus END was jettisoned.

But how has that worked out so far?

For the Braves, END has already cranked out 2 HR's and 6 RBI's in only 24 AB's

While the Reds' quadrumverant of third basemen (Scott Rolen, Miguel Cairo, Todd Frazier, Willie Harris) have only been able to generate 0 HR's and 5 RBI's in 81 AB's.

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It sure seems like a team that can't generate any offense would really benefit from a player who has 6 RBI's in 24 AB's instead of a group that have only generated 5 RBI's in 81 AB's.

When the trade was made, just about everybody was praising Walt for the move, but i'll admit that i'm failing to see how Rolen/Cairo/Frazier/Harris is better than Juan Francisco for a team that went into the season with no offense around Votto?