He needs to trade them to start the position player talent acquisition phase that we need to push this rebuild along. The problem is you only get one bite at the apple for each of these guys, so if he settles, it is too late. He can wait until the winter with Crochet, but with Robert he has a little more time. The problem is a time delay just pushes the Sox recovery event horizon back by an equal amount of time as it takes to move those players.