It was a year ago this week the Mookie Betts trade was finalized; a year later, Baseball Prospectus 2021 is landing in bookstores with Betts, a Dodger in full, exulting as he rounds the bases before a home run trot. It was also about a year ago news of a virus in China had spread beyond its borders, and the course of human history was changed.
A full year later, the world is markedly different than it was at the time, but for their part, the Red Sox have been pretty consistent. If you take the Betts trade off Chaim Bloom’s resume, nothing the Sox have done is too crazy or too Tampa-like not to take.