I know that many are afraid of a Betts/Price trade because of the financial concerns for David Price, and I can understand that. So I went back and looked at the Nick Punto trade (I know Mark’s favorite subject); a previous time when the Dodgers assumed a huge financial obligation for a perceived benefit. I pulled the below article:
One of the lines that caught my eye was when the writer was talking about Ben Cherington, he penned the following:
“For all of his predecessor Theo Epstein’s successes, he was always much better at trades than big free agent signings.