I have received some advice regarding the stats from my first blog. As you may have noticed, Emil Brown did not play the entire season, so his numbers are not proportional to Guillens. Here are the career numbers (for 162 game seasons) for a better comparison. Thanks to STL_Royal and ESPN for the numbers.
Guillen:
Years--G--AB--R--2B--3B--HR--RBI--BB--SO--SB--CS--AVG--OBP
7.83--162-573-76-30--3---21--86---31--107--3-- 3--.274--.325
Brown:
Years--G--AB--R--2B--3B--HR--RBI--BB--SO--SB--CS--AVG--OBP
3.82--162-482-65-26--3---12--70---44--105- 13--3--.262--.329
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Guillen's stats are better than Brown's by this metric too, but what you need to remember is that some of the statistics are skewed because while a good portion of Emil Brown's career has been spent as an everyday player in his 30s, the early part of Guillen's career was spent as a rushed prospect playing part-time, which makes some of his career averages lower than what we can expect out of him for the 2008 season.
While Brown was productive, I think the important number is what we can expect out of Guillen compared to Brown over the next three years and if that's worth $7 million a year because that's probably the difference between what their two salaries would have been as Royals. Looking at it from that perspective, I'd say that unless Guillen really screws the pooch that its a slam dunk in Guillen's favor.
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