Are either Cubs, White Sox be in position to go big at the trade deadline?

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How did Kyle Teel's ankle injury happen and what immediate concerns were raised?

Unknown 0:00

Kyle Teal left the game with an ankle injury, a left ankle injury. We'll be hearing from Will Venable later in the show. That could be somewhat serious. We don't know. Don't want to speculate. But he had to be helped off the field. That was not good. You know me. They say ankle, but I don't know much about... but when they was touching, they not was touching the ankle, they was touching back in the foot. It's like, how you call this? Achilles? The Achilles. When you have Achilles, I remember Jose Contreras got that. Wow, poor man, he came and walked for a long time. I hope it's the ankle. And you would say, This is the news they got. White Sox came out and they said it's an ankle injury. I feel a little bit better.

Unknown 0:38

But when they was taking off the field, you have to a lot think about it. Hopefully it's nothing big deal. But you never know. White Sox say, hey, you know what? He just got a headache. So he missed two months.

Vinny Rotino 0:54

Ozzie had a point. That was courtesy of CHSN. That was Chuck Garfine, Ozzie Guillen on the White Sox postgame show. And yeah, there have been times where somebody got hurt. And then the next thing you see is so-and-so underwent successful surgery. And you're like, wait, what, what? But either way, the Kyle Teal injury looked bad. And he is playing a position of consequence when you consider the dearth of catching talent in baseball. And how an offensive catcher, as we know, is pretty much the Holy Grail, Marshall. And I feel like that's why... The Sox were thought to have three talented catchers, both from an offensive and defensive standpoint earlier, you know, much earlier. And either way, they've got more depth than a lot of teams do at the position.

Vinny Rotino 1:42

Kyle Teal could have been one of those pieces where, or the Sox would have been able to part with one of the pieces. Caro, maybe teams thought that there was a change of scenery there. You know, maybe it was, it was a throw up as well, but like Drew Romo as well, but you have all these other options. And now suddenly that catching, I don't know, depth that they had and maybe a tradable piece or two. It doesn't look as good.

Marshall Harris 2:04

No, this time last year we were literally having a discussion. Well, who do you think is going to be the catcher that the White Sox keep and who's going to be the one that they trade? Because certainly they wouldn't keep both of them. We didn't know Edgar Carroll was going to fall off like he did at the beginning of this season.

Vinny Rotino 2:18

That's the wild card of this.

Marshall Harris 2:19

And so you're waiting for Kyle Till to come back for so long, so long, so long. He finally comes back after a couple of setbacks with his original injury, and now he's gone again. And this is a very different conversation if the White Sox aren't literally in the middle of a pennant push, a playoff push, a postseason push in first place currently. It's not like they're chasing someone. They're in first place.

Vinny Rotino 2:42

Well, and that's the hard part about this is we've seen the Sox make trades of consequence. When you're trading away two players who played at the big league level for a bonus pool money and draft pick, that's a move they made to ensure the future with the Landon Tomey pick at 34 and how they drew that up. So then I'm thinking to myself, just because the AL has suffered around them, we still don't necessarily know how they feel. There was a report last week from Ken Rosenthal saying the Sox were going to be more aggressive than thought at the trade deadline. But the problem is we never really had the baseline for what they thought. So how does Kyle Teal's injury affect what we're seeing happen around this?

Vinny Rotino 3:27

And I do think one thing that is true, though, is because of the dearth of catching depth in baseball and how we've seen a lot of teams part and parcel accept that the catching position is not going to be an offensive production spot. that the Sox were in a good spot to be able to trade a guy and get some value, either for the seasons ahead of us or for this current season. The Sox catching depth could have affected this market.

Marshall Harris 3:55

So Ken Rosenthal, just this morning, writes an article, three all-star catchers are trade candidates.