Bruce Levine: White Sox trading Luis Robert Jr. is 'inevitable'

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00:00Bruce, I'm curious, the White Sox signing of Michael A. Taylor, does that mean they're

00:08kind of an inevitable trade of a Louie Robert Jr.?

00:12Does it mean that Andrew Benatendi moves to DH?

00:15How do you read it?

00:17I think it's an inevitable situation, as you put it.

00:21Is it now?

00:22Do they get the most from him now, or does somebody get him in July when he's proved

00:32that he's back to being Louie Robert?

00:35And will White Sox fans say, if he's on pace for 35 home runs and 100 RBI, why are you

00:41trading him?

00:42He's the key to your future.

00:44I mean, will that be the rhetoric we hear as we move toward the deadline?

00:50When you know you have another couple of years after this year left with Robert as

00:54your option for $20 million a year for 2026 and 2027, will the rhetoric be, why aren't

01:01you keeping him?

01:02It's only $20 million for a star player.

01:06So it could be a very interesting story.

01:08My guess is he gets traded by the deadline, and if he has a good year.

01:15The only situation for the White Sox is, if he's bad and he gets off to a bad start,

01:21then you're not looking at getting hardly anything at all for a player that you really

01:25don't want after this season.