Dodgers Nation · Dec 20, 2025
Mookie Betts Opens Up on Shocking Dodgers, Red Sox Trade
Los Angeles Dodgers shortstop Mookie Betts spoke about how he felt upon hearing the Boston Red Sox traded him to the Dodgers in 2020.
Betts spent the first six seasons of his MLB career with the Red Sox, and had won the AL MVP award with Boston in 2018. The Dodgers traded for him just before the 2020 season, sending Alex Verdugo, Connor Wong and Jeter Downs to the Red Sox in exchange for Betts and left-hander David price.
“I knew, they told me,” Betts said. “It was weird, man. I was like ‘why’. …I didn’t know anything different. I didn’t wanna leave, but I understood the business side of it. It worked out.”