Jon Lester, Mookie Betts and now Xander Bogaerts.
While John Henry, Tom Werner and rest of the Red Sox ownership group have been able to bring four trophies to Boston since purchasing the club in 2002, they’ve now thrown almost as many daggers into the backs of their most beloved franchise icons.
In the earliest hours of Thursday morning, when most team executives had packed their bags and hopped on planes to get back home after MLB’s Winter Meetings had finished, the Red Sox received some franchise-altering news.
