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Shuffling the deck

By Jon Greenberg
ESPNChicago.com

Friday, November 6, 2009

Chris Getz has been exiled to baseball's Siberia. What did he do to deserve a trade to Kansas City? Was he not scrappy enough? Not satisfactorily grindy? Getz climbed through the White Sox system without preferential treatment. He was well-liked, played hard, played hurt, hit for contact and stole bases. He should continue to get better. Sometimes you're just in the wrong place at the wrong time. It's a numbers game, as they say. In a busy day, even by Kenny Williams' standards, t ...

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