The Chicago White SoxA shipped under-performing outfielder Nick Swisher to the New YorkA Yankees for Wilson Betemit, Jeff Marquez and Jhonny Nunez.The highly-touted Swisher lived up to expectations with 35 homers and 95 RBIs in 2006 for Oakland. Since then, he has done very little.
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