Trumbo to ARI; Eaton to CWS; Skaggs, Santiago to LAA

[Lake Louise]

 
LAKE BUENA VISTA, Fla. -- The D-backs got the power bat they were seeking when they acquired outfielder Mark Trumbo from the Angels in a three-team trade Tuesday that also involved the White Sox, multiple baseball sources said.
 
The D-backs also picked up two players to be named later, one from the Angels and one from the White Sox, while dealing outfielder Adam Eaton to Chicago and left-handed pitcher Tyler Skaggs to Los Angeles.
 
The Angels also will receive Hector Santiago from the White Sox.
Trumbo, 24, hit .234 with 34 home runs and 100 RBIs for the Angels this year and has hit 95 home runs across his three full seasons in the big leagues.
 
Though the defensive metrics are not kind to Trumbo, the D-backs believe he will provide adequate defense in left field. But more important, he will add power to a lineup that lacked it last season and possibly take some of the pressure off first baseman Paul Goldschmidt
 
This will be Skaggs' second go-round with the Angels. The D-backs initially acquired him from the Angels in July 2010 in a deal that included right-hander Dan Haren
 
Eaton was viewed as Arizona's leadoff hitter of the future, but with A.J. Pollack also on the roster, the D-backs had a surplus of center fielders and elected to deal one to fill their power-bat deficiency.
 
The acquisition of Trumbo presumably ends the D-backs' run at free-agent outfielder Shin-Soo Choo
Arizona is still in the market for a frontline starting pitcher and it figures to use the money they would have spent on Choo to try to land one.
 

A D-backs lineup with Trumbo and Goldschmidt, that could be dangerous.
 

 

[snipezo]

Angels and Sox got a good deal outta this. Towers is a derp. Trumbo could hit a lot of homers with the dbacks though.

 

[elcheato]

Towers is destroying this team, honestly. He gives up on prospects and young guys at the first sign of struggle and takes on guys who would have a lot of value in the 1960s