I can sense the outrage over such a preposterous proposal of taking the best right fielder and possibly the best player in baseball and shifting him to second base. Several years ago in an article, I contemplated the future of Betts with the Red Sox and just where do you play him? Betts was at that juncture in his career as a second baseman and Dustin Pedroia had that position in a lockdown vice. No more.
Moving Betts is the ultimate long shot, but baseball has strange moves. If you told me that someday I would consider Betts on a par or even exceeding the defensive magnificence of Dwight Evans and Al Kaline I would suggest some type of intervention.