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If it gets Sheets out of the outfield once and for all it’s a huge WIN

Glad to see this because Eder’s stat line is ugly today. But those definitely shouldn’t count against him, but they do.

Thank you.

It's a Memento reference, but if your explaining, you're losing. I took it down.

Some people just have no class. Hate to see it. Do better @WestEddy

Yawn. Really? If Getz traded a miscellaneous 28 year old for an equally miscellaneous 22 year old y'all would be cheering? It's just filling some holes for MiLB. Not worth making sexual assault jokes over.

Yeah he’s a reliever at A ball that the south side sox had ranked as the 70th best prospect in the system. Dude was essentially organizational filler

I don't really care. Would rather just hold onto the younger guys that aren't even on the 40-man over guys like this. Probable: Julks is DFA'd within 10 days and we never hear of Rodriguez ever again.

Andrew Benitendi has -1.3 fWAR, that's easily the worst in all of baseball. He's a staggering -6.8 runs below average with the glove so far.

haha So your analysis is even more surface level than I previously thought. I figured you were arguing "Luis Rodriguez shouldn't have been traded for Corey Julks because Julks is older and I'd rather have Rodriguez because he is younger" when its actually "I don't want to acquire anyone unless they are early 20s no matter how little or insignificant the cost is"

Ok, I will break my own rule, and answer your post this once. I guess the game I'm "playing" is trying to provide info without really throwing an opinion around. This is all Fangraphs has in their prospects section on Rodriguez. You seem to have an entire conversation going on in your head that I'm not part of. Understanding what the GM might be trying to accomplish, and waiting before trashing a move - translates to fluffing, hyping, or actually being Chris Getz - to you. When I respond, you aggressively taunt and troll, to the point where I become part of the "you guys" that is being accused of ruining a thread with a petty argument. I don't want to participate in that, so As-salamu alaykum.

Because we can do both.

This will look like 2 ER, but yeah.

If he continues to pitch well why not keep him and extend his contract?

That’s fine, but Getz should still be targeting younger players than Junks. Even Fletcher was slightly too old to be a good target for this current Sox team. I never once said anything about Luis Rodriguez. Getz is valuing the wrong types of players considering where this rebuild is at.

Ok. I'll answer your question even though you didn't answer mine. A GM of a team would trade for a 28 year old player if he thinks he's more valuable to them than the player they are trading away. In very rare instances, there is more to determining the value of a baseball player than how old they are. There was like a statistical revolution in baseball a while back. They have all sorts of ways to determine if how valuable a player is - birthday (most important, obviously), day of the week they were born, which hospital they were born in, etc. Ok... your turn again... Tell me why he shouldn't have been traded in addition to him being younger than the guy he was traded for.

exactly

Ice cold.

Way more then that.

Cags to the Sox?? 👀👀 Man that would be sweet. I wonder if he has a chance to move to RF?

I will be honest, based on their AAA numbers, I would rather see Julks get a run here.

Tell me why any GM of a team where the Sox are at should ever be trading anyone for 28 year old players? If Julks was in his early to mid-20’s, at least I could understand.

Tell me why Luis Rodriguez is good other than age. It sounds like you know a lot about him.

A lot of hand waving over bottom of the roster churning. Fletcher getting recalled is the biggest move here.