COMMENTARY
Mookie Betts and David Price were still not quite officially L.A. Dodgers as the sun rose on Monday morning, but we were closer than we’d been since this grand dance began last Tuesday night.
We’ve been on quite the ride, baseball capping a rollicking, billion-dollar winter with an attempt to consume itself whole in the final week before spring training. J.D. Martinez spoke for most of us when the second version of the trade went public: Vaya con Dios, Brusdar Graterol, and welcome middle-infield prospect Jeter Downs and catching hopeful Connor Wong alongside Alex Verdugo.