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It's bad enough that the Red Sox have yet to solve their middle-of-the-order 'phantom bat' problem—with only about a month to go until Spring Training. But
another piece of unfinished business is the fact that their best player—
Mookie Betts—remains un-signed after the two sides failed to reach an arbitration agreement. How good was Betts last year? Well, he led
The Carmine Hose in:
hits (166);
extra-base hits (72);
HRs (24);
RBIs (102);
walks (77);
stolen bases (26);
slugging (.459) and
OPS (.803). So, why exactly isn't he already signed? If nothing else, the sense of priorities in this Red Sox organization is
way out of whack.
