No one said Mookie was going to save the Red Sox, but fact is the Red Sox traded a homegrown future HOF in the prime of their career, because for whatever reason they couldn’t get together on a contract. Mookie, Bogey, and Raffy did win one WS together, but could they have won more together we will never no.
Now pull some quotes outta this
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XnczBfj9gng
Championships since purchase by John Henry group: Red Sox 4 Yankees 1
The Red Sox are 8-1 in their last 9 postseason games against the Yankees.
Old school is good school.
Henry was not just concerned with payroll; he wanted to get under the Luxury Tax threshold for 2020. That would have been impossible to do while extending Betts.
It became obvious the Sox were not going to be able to retain Betts when Dombrowski wasn’t allowed to go any higher than he did. And when he said the Sox would NOT be able to retain all three of Betts, Bogaerts and Sale. Once Betts’ price got too high, DD just switched to the players he could extend…