In return to Boston, White Sox rookie Yoan Moncada says trade was ‘best for my career’
August 4, 2017 by admin
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Yoan Moncada returned to face the team that traded him away for the first time Thursday night, and if the White Sox second baseman had any wistfulness about leaving the Red Sox in the blockbuster Chris Sale trade in December, he wasn’t letting on.
Before a 9-5 White Sox loss to the Red Sox, Moncada said he was happy to catch up with former teammates and executives at Fenway Park, but he added he hadn’t paid much attention to the American League East leaders this season.
He is too wrapped up in his first few weeks with the rebuilding White Sox, where he faces a very different set of circumstances than he did in Boston.
“I wasn’t expecting to be traded,” Moncada, 22, said through a team interpreter. “It was a good opportunity for me. Now I’m with this team, and I feel that was the best for me, that was the best for my career. I’m just glad it happened.”
Rick Porcello. But White Sox right-hander Miguel Gonzalez gave up seven earned runs over 1 2/3 innings, including two-run homers to Mookie Betts and Rafael Devers, Moncada’s former minor-league teammate.
The White Sox lost for the 20th time in 24 games, a stretch in part driven by the trades of seven veterans last month for a stockpile of prospects the Sox hope eventually will complement Moncada.
When Moncada last played in Boston in September, the Red Sox were in search of a spark for a playoff push, and they had him play at third base, a position he had manned for just 10 games in the minors.
Rick Renteria said. “We know as a young player he still has so much more in the tank.”
Moncada is 4-for-40 with a double, a triple, a homer, six RBIs, eight walks and 17 strikeouts over 13 games. But Renteria said he has been happy with his at-bats, stressing his need for continued development.
“He’s very calm in the box,” Renteria said. “He’s a confident young man. When he comes away from a particular at-bat, if he has been frustrated by a sequencing they might have done with him, the look he brings into the dugout is — ‘I can’t wait to get back out there the next time.’”
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