In correspondence with Red Sox fans during this spring of discontent, I’ve heard two questions — or similar variations — more than any other:
Do they really think we’re buying their excuses for trading Mookie Betts?
What are they going to do about that thin and injury-prone starting rotation?
The answers have not wavered in either case. Yes, any time they try to tell us that dealing Betts — and this is where I would normally insert three sentences detailing how he was a generational player who never should have been allowed to leave, but even I know that’s getting repetitive — was a baseball rather than a financial decision, they’re playing us for fools.