If Red Sox trade Mookie Betts, it’s tantamount to malpractice

In a meaningless game Sunday, Mookie Betts played like a playoff berth was at stake, scoring the winning run on heads-up base running.In theory and early production, this was intended to be a state-of-the-Red Sox, look-back, look-ahead sort of piece.

You know, an attempt at context after a relentlessly frustrating lost season followed the most spectacular season in franchise history.

It might still be that. Stay tuned.

But I can’t help it. First, I’ve got to spill a few more words ranting about the flat-out nutso possibility (likelihood?) they will trade Mookie Betts this offseason.

One hundred years after the franchise sold Babe Ruth to the Yankees, they seem hell-bent on making their dumbest…