MLB Trade News: Yankees Acquire Outfieflder Austin Kearns

According to Joel Sherman of the NY Post, who’s on fire today breaking two trades, the Yankees acquired outfielder Austin Kearns from the Cleveland Indians for a player to be named later.

Kearns fills the roll of an outfielder who can hit lefties. He’s not a lefty masher or anything, but his career 106 OPS+ against them is an upgrade over Colin Curtis . Sherman also reports that part of the reason the Yankees targeted Kearns is because he’s a pretty good outfielder and manager Joe Girardi has lost faith in the defensive abilities of Marcus Thames .

Kearns, 30, is a free agent after this season as he is on a one-year $0.75 million contract. He’s neither a Type-A or B free agent.

Here are his stats:

Year	Tm	G	AB	R	H	2B	HR	RBI	SB	BB	SO	BA	OBP	SLG	OPS	OPS+
2002	CIN	107	372	66	117	24	13	56	6	54	81	.315	.407	.500	.907	134
2003	CIN	82	292	39	77	11	15	58	5	41	68	.264	.364	.455	.819	117
2004	CIN	64	217	28	50	10	9	32	2	28	71	.230	.321	.419	.740	92
2005	CIN	112	387	62	93	26	18	67	0	48	107	.240	.333	.452	.785	104
2006	TOT	150	537	86	142	33	24	86	9	76	135	.264	.363	.467	.830	112
2006	CIN	87	325	53	89	21	16	50	7	35	85	.274	.351	.492	.843	110
2006	WSN	63	212	33	53	12	8	36	2	41	50	.250	.381	.429	.810	114
2007	WSN	161	587	84	156	35	16	74	2	71	106	.266	.355	.411	.765	103
2008	WSN	86	313	40	68	10	7	32	2	35	63	.217	.311	.316	.627	67
2009	WSN	80	174	20	34	6	3	17	1	32	51	.195	.336	.305	.641	72
2010	CLE	83	298	42	80	17	8	42	4	34	77	.268	.351	.413	.764	111
9 Seasons		925	3177	467	817	172	113	464	31	419	759	.257	.353	.426	.778	104

Provided by Baseball-Reference.com : View Original Table
Generated 7/30/2010.

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