The massive deal sending Mookie Betts to the Dodgers isn’t quite official yet, held up by potential injury concerns about one of the players involved, but it has already caused quite a bit of punditry.
One of those pundits is Jason Gay of the Wall Street Journal, and his take is one that could make baseball executives take pause.
Since the WSJ is behind a paywall, I’ll summarize. Gay looks at the deal from the perspective of a friend’s seven-year-old son:
A friend texted on Wednesday morning:
Do you understand the Mookie Betts trade?