Bronx Pinstripes · Feb 10, 2020
Boston Red Sox traded Mookie Betts
“If the players all retired tomorrow, we would replace them, the game would go on; in three years it would make no difference whatsoever. The players are NOT the game, any more than the beer vendors are.”
– Bill James: Father of the Sabre Revolution and a former executive from Boston’s front office.
As a Yankee fan I’m ecstatic the . When I think of Mookie Betts I think of him hitting an Aroldis Chapman slider into the left field seats in 2018. It was September and by then the division was out of reach already. All this did was tell me what I already knew – but really reinforcing it. The Red Sox were great and Mookie Betts was going to make our lives a living hell for a long time.