Trade Review - CHW/KCR

Chicago White Sox trade 2B Chris Getz and 3B Josh Fields to the Kansas City Royals for 3B/OF Mark Teahen.
Source: ESPN.com


To be honest, I hadn't really followed what Mark Teahen has been doing in Kansas City. My most common recollection of him is the fact that he was a part of the Carlos Beltran trade a few years ago, and that the Royals kept moving him all over the field, playing 2B, 3B, 1B, and OF during his time there. That said, he appears to have at least been a serviceable player at many of those positions, with a fair bat. For the White Sox, he's going to be playing 3B, and shifting Gordon Beckham from 3B to 2B. When I first heard this trade, I assumed (wrongly it turns out) that Teahen would be playing right field, replacing the newly free-agent Jermaine Dye.

The Royals get two very serviceable players in Getz and Fields. Getz stole 25 bases last year in 107 games, and playing a solid 2B. Fields, who seemed to be in the doghouse constantly for the White Sox, hit 23 homers as a rookie in 2006, and hasn't really seen consistent playing time since.

I really think that the Royals did well on this trade, as they sent a player who is one year from free agency, and in return got 2 young players that are under team control for much longer than that.


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ESPNChicago's Jon Greenberg thinks the White Sox are just shuffling the deck.