The Red Sox have a contract issue that is, certainly, to this observer, not a conundrum, but an absolute, lock-down, 100%, and take it to the bank necessity and that is ante up for a long-term deal for Mookie Betts. Give the non All-Star Betts a reward he deserves.
With contracts come risk and the free agent market is rife with examples of dismal failures and any Red Sox fan can point to our own cashe of collectables that have cost millions and produced resonating moans and groans by the millions in Red Sox Nation.