Again the prospects don't matter as much as the money.
Boston Royals! I wonder if they'll make it an annual thing of selling their best player to LA, similar to what the Royals used to do for the Yankees.
Or like I was saying somewhere yesterday, is Boston becoming another Oakland? Grooming good young prospects but then shipping them off to big-market teams once they get pricey? Or, put another way, becoming a quadruple-A team (a major-league team that essentially functions as a minor-league feeder team for big-market clubs)?
What on earth?? So many other cities wish they they had the spending capabilities of the Red Sox. We have won 4 WS since 2004 and have re-tooled between each of them. We have also been near the top of the league in spending each year.
I get that people are upset that we traded Mookie, but these are rich person problems. Imagine what Cincinnati, Pittsburgh, Seattle, etc (never mind OAK) fans would think of a statement like the above.
We may not win another WS for a long time, and if not, that will be a bummer. But we do have 4 recent WS to look back on and an ownership group that is so much better than what was previously here. It's possible Mookie just isn't valued as high (as he thinks he is) by management.