Dioner Navarro’s eyes were trained on his phone before the White Sox’s game Friday against the Mariners.
The catcher wasn’t in the lineup and was checking text messages at his locker stall a couple of hours before the team announced he had been traded to the Blue Jays for left-handed pitcher Colton Turner.
Rookie Omar Narvaez started at catcher for the White Sox and Chris Sale on the same day the fellow catcher Alex Avila returned from the disabled list.
Navarro was batting .210 with six home runs and 32 RBIs this season.