While we all sit here waiting in baseball purgatory for the Red Sox to waste this golden opportunity to nix the Mookie Betts trade, I hear from the occasional fan who claims Betts is not that good in the first place.
I cannot understand why anyone who actually has watched Betts attentively during his 5½-year career here would have even a fleeting thought that he might be overrated. I know he doesn’t have the postseason heroics of David Ortiz or the ’60s/’70s-child admiration of Carl Yastrzemski. And Ted Williams stands alone.
But Betts is already a generational superstar, entering his age-27 season.