While Nick Swisher and Wilson Betemit were the big leaguers who changed hands in the Yankees-White Sox trade announced on Thursday, there was a trio of Minor Leaguers who were swapped as well. Here's a little more info on the White Sox pitcher who joins Swisher on the Yankees and the Yankees duo who now call the White Sox system home.

From the White Sox to the Yankees:
Kanekoa Texeira, RHP
It doesn't happen very often, but sometimes hidden gems can be found in a Draft. Texeira might be one of them.

The native Hawaiian was at Saddleback Junior College in California, but he wasn't pitching much. But then-White Sox scout Danny Ontiveros saw something in him and invited him to a workout at Santa Ana College. He opened up many eyes then, throwing 88-92 mph with some serious life. The White Sox took him the 22nd round, and he's been moving up the ranks since.

Using a three-quarter delivery, Texeira uses a fastball that explodes at the plate. Add that to a nasty slider, and it's clear to see why he's saved 37 games over his two full seasons of pro ball and has struck out more than a batter per inning in his career to go along with a 2.25 ERA. He's allowed just 118 hits in 144 1/3 career innings, holding hitters to a .205 batting average combined in 2008, to go along with a 1.33 ERA. He had a 0.93 ERA in 36 outings with Winston-Salem in the Class A Advanced Carolina League before moving up to Double-A Birmingham and posting a 2.01 ERA in 15 games there.

From the Yankees to the White Sox:
Jeff Marquez, RHP
Taken by the Yankees in the supplemental first round of the 2004 First-Year Player Draft, Marquez had slowly made his way to the top of the Yankees' farm system, spending much of the 2008 season with Triple-A Scranton. He missed nearly two months of this season with a right shoulder strain, finishing the season with a combined 8-8 record and a 4.47 ERA. For his career, he's got a steady 3.60 ERA, with the best year of his career coming in 2007, when he went 15-9 with a 3.65 ERA for Double-A Trenton.

Largely because he missed so much time with the shoulder issue, Marquez has been pitching in the Arizona Fall League, posting a 4.50 ERA over eight games. A scout who saw him in the AFL liked what he saw, thinking he profiled as a dependable middle reliever or maybe a back-end-of-the-rotation guy. He's not a real impact type of player, but he's a very versatile and usable arm for a big league staff.

Marquez knows how to pitch and has a good idea of what he wants to do on the mound. He uses four pitches of varying degrees to get hitters out. In the AFL, he threw his fastball in the 89-93 mph range, comfortably sitting 90-91. His curve grades out as average, between 74-77 mph. He also threw a second breaking ball, a slider, which was a little more hit or miss. It clocked in at around 84-85 mph, but it needs to be tightened to be more effective. Of all his secondary pitches, though, it's Marquez's changeup that might be his best offering. He threw it 81-83 mph and showed a lot of comfort with it, commanding it well.

One word of warning was that Marquez didn't have the cleanest delivery in the world, which sometimes isn't an issue but is something that should be noted with a guy coming off of a shoulder strain.

Jhonny Nunez, RHP
Nunez wasn't a Yankees farmhand for very long, coming to the organization this past July from the Nationals in exchange for infielder Alberto Gonzalez. He began his career with the Dodgers before being dealt to Washington in August 2006 for Marlon Anderson. So if you're scoring at home, this is the third time the right-hander has been traded in just over two years.

He was a starter with the Nats, mostly, making a switch to relief work late in his tenure with the organization. He continued to work out of the bullpen with the Yankees, and it seems that it suits him. After making the switch to the 'pen, between Class A Advanced Potomac, Double-A Harrisburg and then Double-A Trenton with the Yankees, the 22-year-old Nunez had a 1.72 ERA with 37 strikeouts in 31 1/3 relief innings.

Nunez is a big-bodied kid with a nice and loose delivery. He throws his fastball in the 92-95 mph range, and it has some small sink at times. He's got an above-average slider when he gets his arm in the right position to throw it. He's also got a changeup, though it lags behind his other two pitches. He worked on it and was forced to throw it with regularity, especially with the Yankees, and he showed some promise with it.

With some more polish, he should be able to pitch in the big leagues, probably as a solid sixth- or seventh-inning guy, maybe a good setup man down the road some day. Like with many young pitchers, he just needs to hone his command and throw more strikes. More than anything, Nunez needs to maintain his arm slot. He has a tendency to get under the ball and sling it to the plate. When he's on top in his delivery, his slider is truer and his fastball location is much better. He takes to instruction well and there's every belief that he'll get it and get it pretty quickly.