How Twins and Red Sox Could Match Up on an Edouard Julien Trade

[JD-TWINS]

6 hours ago, thelanges5 said:

2025 infield:

1B - Julien

2B - Lee

SS - Correa

3B - Lewis 

Miranda can platoon 1B, cover 3rd for Royce’s DH days. Lee can flex around SS and 3B when needed for rest or DH days. Castro will do Castro things when needed. 

3B ……Lee/Miranda - SS ….. CC/Castro - 2B ……Julien/Castro - 1B ….Miranda/Kirilloff

LF&DH ……Lewis/Castro/Kirilloff

CF …..Buxton/Castro/Martin

RF ……Wallner/Castro/Martin

2 Catchers

Larnach as last guy.

 

[TheLeviathan]

Boston would very much like to match this up.

[redsoxthrowaway]

so, discovered this by way of google as a bored red sox fan, and i feel like this content reads as a surface level understanding of the red sox needs, while focusing on the twins needs. (which makes sense given that it's a twins website, but still it's not a great proposal)

- we do have a second base problem, but we would absolutely not want edouard julien. this has nothing to do with his play as i know very little about the guy. what i do know is he is left handed. the red sox best hitters are all left handed, and while we desperately need righty middle infield help (ideally a shortstop since we have a lot of second baseman only guys and want to move Rafaela back to the outfield). not only that but we have even more lefty talent on the way, we need right handed hitters.

- there is no good reason for us to trade brennan bernardino unless we are getting someone we want and as previously stated, julien is not that guy.

[Brock Beauchamp]

20 minutes ago, redsoxthrowaway said:

so, discovered this by way of google as a bored red sox fan, and i feel like this content reads as a surface level understanding of the red sox needs, while focusing on the twins needs. (which makes sense given that it's a twins website, but still it's not a great proposal)

- we do have a second base problem, but we would absolutely not want edouard julien. this has nothing to do with his play as i know very little about the guy. what i do know is he is left handed. the red sox best hitters are all left handed, and while we desperately need righty middle infield help (ideally a shortstop since we have a lot of second baseman only guys and want to move Rafaela back to the outfield). not only that but we have even more lefty talent on the way, we need right handed hitters.

- there is no good reason for us to trade brennan bernardino unless we are getting someone we want and as previously stated, julien is not that guy.

Thanks for giving us a different perspective on the situation!

[JD-TWINS]

On 7/18/2024 at 5:24 PM, bean5302 said:

Some other top 100 prospects and how they rank at Baseballtradevalues
Jenkins = 63.8
Lee = 30.8
Julien = 30.1
Keaschall = 20.7
Festa = 13.7
Matthews = 11.2
Gonzalez = 11.0

Some frontline to mid rotation starting pitcher value
Cease 26.8
Gallen 26.4
Fedde 20.9
Luzardo 17.2
Eflin 17.1
Gray 10.6
Flaherty 8.5
Kikuchi 5.3
Eovaldi 4.8
Scherzer 3.6
Gausman 0.2
Verlander -1.8
Bassitt -5.7
Darvish -21.8 

With the Diamondbacks once again over .500, I'd think Gallen would be hard to obtain, but I'd love for the Twins to snap him up if Arizona falters.

So, I get that you are just printing what somebody else has put into print……….how can Eddie Julien be worth more than Dylan Cease…..Gallen……Fedde????

I guess $$$ cost is in the mix as well as years of control. Fedde isn’t really much above AVERAGE at all…..he only costs $7.5M next year…….I’d trade Eddie for Tanner Scott as a Rental and take the $14M we may have to sign a guy going forward for 3 years. An absolute dominant Pen!!!

[thelanges5]

Julien had the night off in St. Paul. 

[nokomismod]

On 7/18/2024 at 12:35 PM, DJL44 said:

I would rather send Julien to Toronto as part of a deal for Kikuchi. I'm sure the Blue Jays would love to have a Canadian player who can hit the snot out of the ball in Fenway.

Not so sure about that. At the second playoff game vs Toronto last year, there were some rowdy Canadians around us calling him a separatist and a Quebecois rat. 

[RaoulDuke]

12 hours ago, RpR said:

Re-establish in rhe MiLB, which he is not doing now.

Yes I would wait for him to re establish value at the mlb level, or at least give him a long runway to do so.  That may take some time but it seems like he is starting to trend in the right direction.

If there is a chance to trade him in the future while he is producing in the mlb I wouldn't mind them doing it.

The time to trade him was last off season at his peak, but that is a crazy hard move to make.                           

[jimbo92107]

Red Sox value hitters with plate discipline. Eddie Julien today is a good hitter and a rapidly improving second baseman. When Royce gets back, Twins can slide Lee to 2B, Royce back to 3B.