Baseball makes us feel many things. Happiness, sadness, excitement, disappointment, hurt, confusion, optimism, pessimism, and upset. Currently, Red Sox fans are experiencing more of those negative feelings. Why? Because their team just traded away a 27-year old superstar outfielder in a year where they were planning to contend because they couldn’t afford to sign him to a contract extension. This situation sounds fairly familiar to one the Brewers could find themselves in down the road.
Both Betts and Christian Yelich were the league MVPs in 2018, both are very young, superstar outfielders, and both would command a lot of money on the open market.