On February 9, 2020, the Los Angeles Dodgers had a veritable superteam. Having won 106 games the year prior, they were returning a lineup that had eight players who posted an OPS+ over 108, led by reigning MVP Cody Bellinger, to go along with a pitching staff headlined by Clayton Kershaw and Walker Buehler. Had they decided to bring back the 2019 squad unchanged for 2020, nobody would have batted an eye.
Instead, on February 10, 2020, they traded Alex Verdugo, Jeter Downs, and Connor Wong to the Boston Red Sox for Mookie Betts and David Price, finalizing a trade that had been initially agreed to the week prior but had fallen apart due to medicals.