MLB Trade Deadline Shockers: Which Teams Made Genius Moves and Who Set Themselves Up for Disaster?

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Chicago White Sox: C

Moves:

• Traded SP Adrian Houser to Tampa Bay for IF Curtis Mead, SP prospect Duncan Davitt and RP prospect Ben Peoples

• Traded OF Austin Slater to New York (AL) for SP prospect Gage Ziehl

The Pope’s team didn’t have a lot to trade after last year’s firesale, but it was certainly interesting that GM Chris Getz held on to Luis Robert Jr. The mercurial outfielder has a $20 million team option for next year, an option that given his rough start to this season did not appear likely to be picked up. But the Sox didn’t deal Robert, likely because they value him as a controllable player while other teams saw him as a rental. They’ll hope he continues rebounding enough that they can justify picking up his option. That’s a nice haul for Houser, whom the Sox scooped up off the scrap heap earlier this year.

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