"Trading a Cy Young contender like 26-year-old Garrett Crochet meant the return had to be fruitful, or the rebuilding White Sox would be even further from competing. The headliner coming over from the Red Sox was catcher Kyle Teel, ranked No. 25 among all MLB prospects in December, and also included Chase Meidroth, Braden Montgomery and Wikelman Gonzalez. It's too early to draw any major conclusions about the trade, but the White Sox feel good about what Teel has done so far."
""It's the quality of swing decisions and to me, just the willingness to use the whole field," White Sox manager Will Venable said. "You see a lot of base hits to the middle of the field, the opposite field, late in the count where he just seems to be committed to just having quality at-bats and not trying to do too much. So yeah, he just continues to stack quality at-bats one after the other.""
The White Sox acquired catcher Kyle Teel along with Chase Meidroth, Braden Montgomery and Wikelman Gonzalez in the return for Garrett Crochet. Teel has produced strong offensive results since joining Chicago, including a nine-game stretch slashing .500/.541/.706 with two home runs, nine RBIs and six multi-hit games. Teel ranks highly among qualified rookies in on-base percentage (.385), wRC+ (128), batting average (.300), OPS (.802) and slugging (.418). He demonstrates quality swing decisions, use of the whole field and consistent, committed at-bats that generate base hits to multiple parts of the field.
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