You may be right that we've had great player's who wound up signing with someone else, but regarding your comment on age, Bradley is only 31, Benedetti 26, and Betts only 28. When you have the best player in the league (with all respect to Mike Trout) you better have a really good reason. That's all I'm saying. The guy I pine for more than anyone is Dustin Pedroia, and that's because of his heart. Ya, I'm having trouble letting go of the '18 team. Wasn't that fun watching them win all those game? For 86 years nothing but disappointment, then 4 world championships in 14 years. Maybe some of us got spoiled. Me included.