A Red Sox contract for Mookie Betts is awash with caution

The Boston Red Sox will have a two-year window to evaluate a Mookie Betts contract. Historically there are caution flags to any long term deals.

Is there a baseball metric to analyze angst? Have a battalion of sabermetricians created a web of intrigue formulas to decide fan volatility? The reasoning is that Red Sox Nation is facing an apocalyptic moment in just two years. This is not a devastating impact asteroid, but something far more threatening – the free agency of Mookie Betts.

Betts is the little dynamo that drives the lineup – the little steam engine that could. The best player in baseball? Go to WAR – baseball WAR that is – either fWAR or bWAR and you can make my argumentative case to…