A month ago, I chose the best player on the White Sox, Adrian Houser, to feature in a trade-or-no story, with the conclusion reached that without a massive haul for him (not totally implausible given his now-3.0 WAR in less than half a season of play), he is the sort of pitcher who should be kept and extended on the cheap.
Naturally, then, on Thursday with minutes left before the deadline clock struck, GM Chris Getz shipped Houser to Tampa for failed infield prospect Curtis Mead.
Mead, in his third season with the Rays and playing in 111 career games, has a career 0.