What About Wilkerson

One final thought before the weekend and my brain shuts off, would Brad Wilkerson be a good fit for the Braves. He just got traded from Washington to Texas for Alfonso Soriano, and the buzz has it that Texas is going to ship him somewhere else. Wilkerson has played a lot of left field and he’s done a lot of leading off. He may only be a career .260 hitter leading off, but he has a .372 on-base percentage. Isn’t that the whole job of the leadoff hitter; to get on base? By comparison, while Furcal has a higher career average hitting leadoff at .281, his on-base percentage is only .346. And Wilkerson would only cost about $5 million next year.

I am going to ‘speculate’ that we could pry Wilkerson from the Rangers for Betemit and either Horacio or Sosa. I know that the Rangers are wanting a second baseman in return, so maybe we could 3-way with Toronto (with Orlando Hudson). I think getting an on-base percentage guy like Wilkerson would be a good move.