Colin Cowherd: “The two worst trades in Major League Baseball history both belong to the Red Sox. They gave up Babe Ruth and they gave up Mookie Betts. You think I’m being hyperbolic here... The kid is incredible. In his prime the Red Sox are like ‘WE’RE GOING TO MOVE HIM TO THE DODGERS!’... Yeah, you’ll need a search party to find the players that they traded for him because only one guy they got for Mookie Betts still remains with the Red Sox.
There’s a rule in business: ‘NEVER LET GREAT WALK OUT OF THE DOOR’, and in the six months after they let Mookie Betts walk out the door the Dodgers signed him to a 12-year extension. They knew what they had – probably the best player in baseball. He’ll play any position. He didn’t even have a rehab, he probably just worked out at home. The smile, he’s great in the locker room, he’s a leader, he can run, any defensive position, most well-liked guy in the clubhouse, he can hit for power, and the Red Sox let him go. Let they ‘GREAT’ walk out of the building. All the Dodgers had to do was eat David Price’s contract. That might as well be the sighting of Halley’s Comet – who remembers it?? It was a bad contract but in the end you got Mookie Betts for 12 years who’s just an absolutely unbelievable player. I know Aaron Judge is great, but do the Dodgers have the two best players in baseball in Mookie Betts and Shohei Ohtani? Since the Dodgers traded for him the Dodgers have the most wins in baseball, the best run-differential, the second-best home run-differential, best team ERA, and the Red Sox are 17th or lower in ALL those categories. They let GREAT walk out of the building.
Since he arrived, he’s been top 5 in MVP voting I think three or four times, and has 124 home runs in 544 games. When you look at him, he’s slight. He’s not a big guy. He reminds me a little bit of Joe Morgan, where you’re always like ‘how does Joe Morgan generate all that power??’ He’s also a profoundly good bowler, so whether it’s baseball or bowling, he hovers around .300 a lot. You don’t see players moving into their prime traded very often. It’s not like he was a disrupter, he was wonderful in the clubhouse. Everybody loved Mookie Betts. That guy is unbelievable. I know we give Ohtani a lot of press, but when Mookie Betts arrived it changed everything. They call it a ‘five-tool player’ but when you add personality and leadership he’s probably a ‘seven-tool player.’ You watch a baseball game with Mookie Betts and you’re just like ‘who is THAT guy??’"
Listen to Colin Cowherd of Fox Sports Radio’s The Herd explain why he thinks the February, 2020 trade that sent Mookie Betts from the Red Sox to the Dodgers in exchange for Alex Verdugo, Connor Wong, and Jeter Downs was the worst trade in Major League Baseball history since Boston infamously sold Babe Ruth to the Yankees in 1920.
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