You know those videos of deaf babies getting hearing aids? The ones that make you cry when you see the kid react to their mom’s voice for the first time? The ones where they realize, in their bubbly little brains, holy shit, there’s so much more to all this “life thing” that they knew? That everything was going to be markedly different — better — thereafter? Yes? No? Either way, I’m just asking. No reason. Except this one:
Yesterday, Craig Breslow traded Alex Verdugo to the Yankees for pitching in his first major move in charge of the Sox, nearly perfectly mirroring Chaim Bloom’s first move, which was to acquire Verdugo for Mookie Betts.