Though Mookie Betts was controversially traded by the Red Sox in 2020, he still remembers his time with the team fondly.
The most recent example of this came during an episode of Betts’s podcast, “On Base with Mookie Betts.” Speaking to Padres outfielder Jackson Merrill, Betts noted that Merrill grew up a Red Sox fan.
Merrill explained that he liked watching multiple players from that era, including Xander Bogaerts, Betts, Dustin Pedroia, and David Ortiz. Asked specifically who was his favorite member of the Red Sox in that time, Merrill singled out Pedroia.