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Why you shouldn’t give up on this Red Sox season

In correspondence with Red Sox fans during this spring of discontent, I’ve heard two questions — or similar variations — more than any other:

Do they really think we’re buying their excuses for trading Mookie Betts?

What are they going to do about that thin and injury-prone starting rotation?

The answers have not wavered in either case. Yes, any time they try to tell us that dealing Betts — and this is where I would normally insert three sentences detailing how he was a generational player who never should have been allowed to leave, but even I know that’s getting repetitive — was a baseball rather than a financial decision, they’re playing us for fools.