Posted by Zach Sanders on Thursday, November 5, 2009 at 3:16 pm

This morning, Bill Madden of the New York Daily News reported that the Chicago White Sox have acquired Mark Teahen from the Kansas City Royals for Chris Getz and Josh Fields.

Teahen will likely play right field for the White Sox, who will be letting Jermaine Dye walk in free agency. Teahen is nothing special, putting up a .271/.357/.517 line with 12 homers and 8 steals last year. A move to U.S. Cellular field could prove helpful for Teahen, bringing him a few more homers than we would expect to see in Kansas City. He is still nothing special, but won’t kill you in any category. Moving to Chicago only helps his value, as getting out of the horrid Kansas City lineup will give him more runs (69 in ‘09) and RBI’s (50) than he would have gotten in Royals blue.

Getz, a second baseman, put together a decent offensive season in his rookie year. Playing in 107 games, he stole 25 bases in 27 tries while hitting .261/.324/.347. He is still young, so one could expect improvement in 2010. However, going to the Royals isn’t going to help him any. There have been talks of moving Mike Aviles to second base and continuing to start Yuniesky Betancourt at shortstop, but this should put a stop to that. Getz will likely be their everyday second baseman in 2010, and should see ample playing time. He didn’t score a lot of runs with the White Sox (49) due to being in the bottom half of the order, and this shouldn’t change in Kansas City.

Fields will be a bench player for the Royals, with Alex Gordon occupying third base when healthy. Fields is a power bat when he makes contact, but that is a rare occurrence. He is a homeless man’s Jack Cust, if Jack Cust sucked more. The Royals are probably hoping he lives up to the potential he showed in the minors and earlier in his career, but I’m not holding my breath.

So, who won this trade? No one. Teahen isn’t anything worth giving up two players for, but neither of the players they gave up are worth much in their own right. If I was forced at gunpoint to pick a winner, I’d say the Royals. Two cost controlled players give them an opportunity to spend elsewhere, and gives them some organizational depth.