Red Sox Mirror Image: Mookie Betts to Jackie Jensen

Mirroring Red Sox players of the present with one from my memories of the past. This is the right fielders – Mookie Betts and Jackie Jensen.

There is very little that Mookie Betts has not accomplished in his professional career and even his non-professional career, but when I look at Betts I think of other great Red Sox right-fielders and one is Jackie Jensen. I could have chosen Dwight Evans, but as a teenager my goal was to be Mickey Mantle or Jackie Jensen.

Betts is a unique talent and if he stays healthy and in Boston may be the eventual greatest of all Red Sox. Betts exceeds Jensen in every category on the baseball playing field with the exception of run production, but that – of course…