After he was traded and signed with the Dodgers essentially forever, the small chance of justification of trading Mookie Betts and stunningly bringing him back after the competitive balance threshold reset simply disappeared. The team is almost certainly worse now and in the future without the game’s second-best player. Compounded by also trading David Price (and later losing Chris Sale and Eduardo Rodriguez) Boston has a rotation that would be thankful to add Aaron Cook, Wade Miley, or the 2009 version of John Smoltz that briefly donned the Red Sox uniform.
Wil Myers is financial flexibility that can play a position
