Hudson gets call Sunday vs. Royals

At the end of spring training, manager Ozzie Guillen had a tough time telling starting pitcher Daniel Hudson he wasn't breaking camp with the White Sox.

"Daniel made the team," Guillen said on March 30 in Glendale, Ariz. "He made the team; we just didn't have a space for him."

The Sox have space now.

And as expected, Hudson is coming up from Class AAA Charlotte to replace Jake Peavy, who is out for the season with a detached latissimus dorsi muscle.

Hudson gets the start this afternoon against defending American League Cy Young Award winner Jake Greinke and the Royals.

Guillen liked the way Hudson pitched for the White Sox last September, when he was 1-1 with a 3.38 ERA in six games (2 starts).

He liked the way Hudson pitched in spring training, even though the 6-foot-3, 225-pound right-hander was much better in relief (1 earned run in 8 innings) than he was as a starter (8 earned runs in 8 innings).

Demoted to Charlotte, Hudson was 11-4 with a 3.47 ERA in 17 starts. He also had 108 strikeouts in 93 1/3 innings.

"I will be pretty pleased and happy if this kid gives me 5 good innings (today)," Guillen said. "I will talk to him. He just has to do what he can do. He's not coming here to save us. He's not going to come here to be Jake Peavy. He's not going to come here to say, 'Well, I have to do this to stay.'

"He has to go there to be Hudson. Be the way he is. Throw the ball at the plate. He's been here before. I don't see him walking in here like, 'Wow, oh, my God, this is the big leagues.' He's been here before and we treated him very well. We will continue to treat him very well."

To make room for Hudson, Jeff Marquez was sent back to Charlotte after Saturday's game. Marquez made his major-league debut Friday and allowed 2 runs in 1 inning.

Tracking Teahen: Mark Teahen is scheduled to have the pins removed from his fractured right middle finger Thursday.

On the disabled list since May 31, Teahen is looking forward to rejoining the White Sox by the end of the month.

"Once I get the range of motion back in that joint, get the strength back in it, which I'm hoping will take a couple of days, then I can start throwing," Teahen said. "I've been doing just swinging with my left arm.

"You can work on some things so my body won't be completely overwhelmed when I start to swing again. I've been taking groundballs the past couple of days. I still have a couple of weeks, probably, before I'm back on the field."

Teahen started hitting before injuring his finger fielding a groundball during a May 30 game at Tampa Bay. An 8-for-20 streak raised his batting average from .231 to .255.

In his absence, Omar Vizquel and rookie Dayan Viciedo have performed well at third base for the White Sox.

"It's nice to have some depth in the minor leagues, and Vizquel has done a great job when he plays there, too," Teahen said. "It's been nice that the team is deep enough to be able to play well."