Because they needed someone to play CF and Chris Young is a career 95 OPS guy over 4600 at bats. He's hit 187 HRs in his career, stolen 147 bases, and owns a positive dWAR for his career. The three best comps for his career through his current age are Jose Cruz, Dave Henderson, and Alex Gordon. He's been a good player. Meanwhile the guy you are losing sleep over is a career 76 OPS+ hitter over 1600 at bats. He's hit 12 HRs in his entire career, he's stolen 157 bases, but he's posted a negative dWAR for his career. He had a nice open to his 2017 then cratered. He posted a .289/.379/.461 batting line over his first 24 games, then went on hit .206/.224/.324 in the next 24 games...
You'd be shocked to know that there were precious few here who wanted him retained... For the most part people wanted him gone It was indeed frustrating to see him sent packing because of the AP situation because if not for him there is no way they make that move. The only positive here is that the bag of peanuts they got for him is looking like a pretty good player so far. Luis Rengfino has put up a .311/.417/.455 batting line in High A so far and was second in the minors with 18 SBs. He's got a ways to go but at least he's looking like he can play some SS and can swing the bat.
Really? So on December 13th when they made that trade you wanted them to play Fletcher at 2B. The same David Fletcher you had never seen play and who was coming off a 655 OPS season across two minor league levels? Its not like he had a down year either, he had put up a .673 OPS the previous year. Dude was looking like a UT IF before his massive leap forward this season. This is revisionist history 101.