Written on November 19, 2007 – 6:29 pm | by JC | angels baseball chicago white sox malkus orlando cabrera white sox

Big trade on Monday with Jon Garland going to the Los Angeles Angels on for shortstop Orlando Cabrera. Jon Garland will be heading to LA. Jon Garland is 28 years old and has had some success with the the White Sox, but now it looks like Orlando Orlando Cabrera will be a part of that ball club now.

If your wondering about Jon Garlands stats for the 2005 to 2006 season here they are. Hes won 18 games in 2005 and 2006, and was 10 for 13 with a 4.23 ERA in 32 starts last season. Not bad for the young pitcher. You may recall that Jon Garland was picked up by the White Sox from the Cubs back in July 29 of 1998 for another pitcher they wanted Matt Karchner.

So Jon Galand has been with the White Sox now for some time. They have up and decided that a move for Orlando Cabrera may just be strategically better for their ball club.

If you want to know how Orlando Cabrera matches up against Jon garland then you just take a look at his stats. Orlando Cabrera who is 33 years of age batted .301 with 35 doubles he had eight home runs and had 86 RBIs and a career-high 101 runs with the Angels last year. He had a career-high 192 hits.

Thats pretty decent stats. This looks like it may be a winner for The Sox to trade Jon Garland for Orlando Cabrera. If Jon garland turns out to be a good mix with the Angels bullpen then they should get some pretty good action from him there. We will just have to see how things turn out for the Angels and for the Sox in the next season of the majors.