Eaton not worried about what Nationals gave up to get him
WASHINGTON — Until a couple of days before he was sent to the Washington Nationals, outfielder Adam Eaton had no inkling it would happen.
“I didn’t expect to be traded,” Eaton said Saturday in his first meeting with reporters since the Nationals shipped three young pitchers to the Chicago White Sox for him last week. “I don’t think anybody really expects to be traded.”
But once Eaton heard the White Sox had shipped left-hander Chris Sale to the Boston Red Sox, signaling Chicago’s full-on rebuilding effort, he said, “It was kind of like: ‘Oh, boy, here we go.’ It was kind of a downhill slope.”
Eaton and Washington’s other significant offseason addition, catcher Derek Norris, were among the players attending the Nationals’ annual fan festival (Bryce Harper was not).