i am seriously confused by some posts in this thread.
John Henry mandated a reset.
the only way to reset was to trade all of Price (no GM in the history of GM's would take that full salary) or trade Mookie's last year of arbitration ($27MM).
Bloom did a FANTASTIC job with this trade.
for those bitching about henry/bloom trading Mookie let me ask you this....would you rather have mookie betts for 1 more season coming off an 85 win season with basically the same team and then guaranteed to not be able to resign him next year in FA?
or
trade Mookie for this season, reset the tax as mandated by commander data, and have a very very very good shot at resigning Mookie next year in FA and have him lockdown RF for the next decade?
which do you choose?
Me? GREAT JOB C-BlOOM!