When the Los Angeles Dodgers agreed to a trade for Mookie Betts, David Price, and cash from the Boston Red Sox over the winter, it made huge waves for both organizations. The Dodgers were acquiring two significant pieces of the puzzle in what could (still?) be a World Series run in 2020. Meanwhile, the Red Sox got some much-needed salary relief and were also able to stock up on a few solid prospects to help rebuild their farm system.
Sound familiar? It should. Los Angeles and Boston came together on a similarly monumental deal in August 2012, when then Dodgers’ general manager Ned Colletti swung a deal that rang in the arrival of the new ownership group in L.