I’ll let MLB Trade Rumors founder Tim Dierkes start this off: “Braves GM Frank Wren told David O’Brien of the Atlanta Journal-Constitution, “This trade improves our club for the second half of the season.”” I think Mr. Frank Wren is out of his goddamn mind, and I will dedicate my time to keeping a close eye on how these two perform henceforth so I can gloat at the end and call him stupid. [No, he will not be right.]

So, let’s take a look at this one. Rest-of-season ZiPS projections has Yunel Escobar hitting at a .280/.357/.390/.335 (AVG/OBP/SLG/wOBA) clip, and that wOBA is well above the .324 MLB average. On the other hand, Alex Gonzalez is projected to be a .242/.288/.414/.308 hitter for the unofficial second half of the MLB season.

Now, we all know that splitting up defensive production and analyzing the results is a bit silly, so instead of focusing on their rest-of-season fWAR, we’ll just look at how these two perform offensively over the rest of the season by their respective, new-age vital line (AVG/OBP/SLG/wOBA) and weighted runs above average, or wOBA turned into runs.

So, check back here every Monday to see how these two short stops are doing for their new teams. As it stands, Escobar is hitting .238/.334/.284/.291 and that .291 wOBA has translated into 8.1 runs below average. Yeesh. Gonzalez is at  .259/.296/.497/.341 and has produced 4.1 runs above average.