We all dreamed about it, I’m sure. At the very least, Red Sox fans had nightmares about it. After two center fielders jumped ship to the Bronx, all it took to strike fear into the hearts of Red Sox fans was to refer to Mookie Betts as “the future Yankee center fielder.” A joke among friends, however, was all it ever seemed destined to be, even as the Red Sox decided to do their best impression of the New York Giants and put their best player on the trade block.
And then Peter Abraham of the Boston Globe, the newspaper owned by Red Sox owner John Henry, published an article with a wild trade proposal, in which the star outfielder and Jay Groome would come to the Bronx in exchange for Miguel Andujar, Clint Frazier, Luis Gil, and Mike King.