Back to the Boston Red Sox Newsfeed

Dear Chaim Bloom: Keep Mookie, and work your magic on the pitching staff

The Red Sox haven’t even traded Mookie Betts yet, and I’m already reluctantly thinking about the acceptance stage of baseball grief. If, or when, they trade him, and they should not, at least it will be interesting to see what new baseball boss Chaim Bloom can get in return.

His former employer, the Tampa Bay Rays, sure did have a knack for finding talent in all sorts of ways.

Ah, heck, forget acceptance. I’m going to stay over here in the denial stage. The Red Sox can’t trade the most complete player they’ve developed in the draft era just because he wants to be paid like .