The Dodgers making the huge trade for Mookie Betts in February of this year was the headline of the decade. Every fan in Los Angeles immediately started to pencil in a championship for 2020, not knowing what was to come.
The world obviously shut down and the excitement quickly turned to anxiety. Dodgers fans’ worst fears of losing Mookie before playing a game got very real. But as it always does, baseball found a way to come through for all of us.
And because of that, we get to see Mookie Betts in a Dodgers uniform for a very long time now.