On Thursday, the Red Sox announced a trade with the Pittsburgh Pirates, acquiring starting pitcher Johan Oviedo, left-handed pitcher Tyler Samaniego, and minor league catcher Adonys Guzman in exchange for outfielder Jhostynxon Garcia and minor league right-handed pitcher Jesus Travieso.

With that move, Red Sox fans will no longer have the player they called “The Password” in the mix as someone who could be a part of future plans for this team.

Garcia burst onto the scene in 2025 with Triple-A Worcester, batting .271 with 18 homers and 58 RBI across 351 plate appearances for the WooSox. Routinely making highlight plays in the outfield while launching massive homers at Polar Park, the 22-year-old gave the Red Sox no choice but to call him up for the Yankees series in late August, as the team was looking for a spark offensively against their arch rival during the home stretch of the season. With how well he had been playing Worcester, the thought was Boston could catch some lightning in a bottle from a guy with an .833 OPS in Triple-A.

That didn’t happen, as Garcia went 1 for 7 with 2 walks and 5 strikeouts in 9 plate appearances across 5 games on the big league roster.

This led to a password change, sending Garcia back down to Worcester for the remainder of the season.

Given how crowded Boston’s outfield already was in 2025, it would have taken quite the effort for Garcia to stick around. And moving forward, it appears Boston felt like he was an expendable enough piece within their organizational outfield depth to move on from in the name of adding more starting pitching.

What does Boston lose by trading “The Password?”

When a team trades a prospect in their early 20s, the conversation usually centers on probability:

How many years away is he?

How raw is the skill set?

What’s the hit tool projection?

With Garcia, though, the Red Sox are parting ways with more than just a lottery ticket.

They’re moving on from one of the more intriguing upside swings in the lower levels of the system - someone whose collection of tools earned attention from evaluators even before he became the hot name to call up mid-summer.

Garcia’s appeal starts with the physicality.

Even at a young age, he already shows the frame and leverage that scouting departments dream about. His bat speed is real, the kind you can’t teach, and it creates the foundation for above-average raw power as he continues to mature. Boston has taken a clear organizational approach in recent years to stockpile hitters who produce damage contact, and Garcia fits that mold cleanly. In dealing him, they’re losing a player who already demonstrates the earliest ingredients of a middle-of-the-order offensive ceiling - rare territory for someone so early in his development curve.

Sure, he didn’t show that in a five-game sample size in late August. But that should not be held against him - debuting at Yankee Stadium in the heart of a playoff race is no easy ask.

There’s also the matter of his approach.

Garcia is far from a finished product, but his underlying swing decisions give reason for optimism. He doesn’t profile as a free-swinging slugger who has to chase his way to power. Instead, he’s shown glimpses of zone control that, with proper development, could turn into a legitimate on-base skill. For a Red Sox farm system that has been trying to improve its balance of hit-first/power-first prospects, Garcia represents a blend of both that isn’t easy to reproduce.

Defensively, his value comes from versatility and athleticism.

He moves well for his size (6-foot, 163 pounds), giving him a real chance for real staying power in an outfield corner while providing enough arm strength to play right field if needed. Losing Garcia doesn’t just thin out Boston’s minor league depth, it strips away one of the few young outfielders in the farm system with the physical traits to project as an everyday major leaguer if everything clicks.

But the real cost to Boston is timeline and organizational philosophy.

Garcia is exactly the type of developmental upside play that good farm systems accumulate in waves. Trading him now means surrendering years of club control before the picture is fully formed. If he pops - if the strength gains arrive, if the plate discipline tightens, if the game power takes the next step - he becomes the kind of breakout player a team regrets moving too early.

In short, dealing “The Password” gave up ceiling, athleticism, and long-term developmental upside. He might be far from a finished product, but those are precisely the types of prospects that become the backbone of future surges.

Tom Carroll is a contributor for Roundtable, with boots-on-the-ground coverage of all things Boston sports. He's a senior digital content producer for WEEI.com, and a native of Lincoln, RI.