3 Way Trade With White Sox, Angels Sends Trumbo To D-Backs

The Los Angeles Angels,  Arizona Diamondbacks and Chicago White Sox have completed a three-way trade that will send Mark Trumbo to Arizona, centerfielder Adam Eaton to Chicago and pitchers Tyler Skaggs and Hector Santiago to Anaheim. Arizona will also be receiving two players to be named later.

Trumbo, 27, hit .234/.294/.453 (109 OPS+) with 34 home runs in 2013. He’s hit 95 homers over the last three seasons.

Eaton is a 25-year-old outfielder who batted .254/.332/.373 in 380 major-league plate appearances  that will become the White Sox center-fielder.

Skaggs has pitched 68 innings in the major leagues and has a 3.34 ERA across 97 minor-league games, 87 of which have been starts. Skaggs won’t be eligible for arbitration until at least 2016  And is under team control until 2019.

Santiago, 25, has pitched to a 3.41 ERA, 224 2/3 innings across parts of three big-league seasons. The Angels were intent on proving their  pitching situation entering the Winter Meetings and  just last week expressed their intentions to do so without moving Trumbo.

The framework for the deal was first reported by Keith Law of ESPN