Just in case anyone missed this, Urias's grand slams came on consecutive pitches. And he says they were the only grand slams he's ever hit, including Little League.
Crazy game.
It's 2 separate things:
-The trade was fine in terms of what Bloom got back.
-The decision to give up on retaining Betts was not fine, not fine at all.
Pretty hard to disagree that they should have gotten a starter.
But that of course assumes they were seriously interested in trying to make the playoffs.
My evaluation leaves out the trade altogether because the trade brings in a pile of variables.
To me the simplest way to look at it is that we subtracted a player who has produced 52.5 million in surplus value in the first 2.75 years of his new contract. That hurts any way you look at it.
Betts AAV vs. FanGraphs Dollar Values:
2021 29 30.8
2022 29 52.3
2023 (pro-rated for 120 team games) 21.5 48.9
Totals 79.5 132
Surplus value to date 52.5
But Hugh, we can also cherry-pick Sox players who have had lousy returns on the money the last few years.
For example, what if we compare 2023 Betts 29 AAV to 2023 Story and Kluber 33.33 AAV?