Things haven’t been going the best for the Boston Red Sox since winning the World Series in 2018. Between injuries, trades, payroll slashing, a cheating investigation, and now the coronavirus halting the season, it’s not much fun being a Red Sox fan. Of those things though, it feels like one could’ve truly been avoided, trading Mookie Betts.
Now that we’re several months removed from the trade that shook the baseball world, the dust has settled and things seem a little clearer, kind of. It was obvious this winter that Boston was hellbent on slashing payroll to reset their CBT penalty marker for the 2020 season, this meant wheeling and dealing.