I’m normally a very positive, optimistic person in my “real life” and I usually try to take the glass-half-full view when it comes to sports as well. However, that’s been increasingly difficult to do this offseason when it comes to the Red Sox.
I’ve found myself, certainly not alone among fans, in disbelief at what the team is doing and how they’re building (or not) the 2020 roster. The tipping point was the Mookie Betts trade which marked the nadir of the offseason and ripped the collective heart out of Red Sox Nation.
After writing my last two articles excoriating the Red Sox for trading Mookie (and getting a paltry return) and for somehow becoming the most irrelevant of the four teams in Boston, I sat back, caught my breath, and took stock.