Roberts added that Betts was home in Nashville before he planned to join the team back at Fenway Park. Betts won his first World Series title in a year to remember for the Red Sox back in 2018, when Boston defeated the Dodgers in five games. He won American League MVP that season among a slew of individual accolades.

It’s somehow been over five years since the Boston Red Sox and Los Angeles Dodgers made arguably baseball’s most important trade of the 2020s, a deal which sent All-Star outfielder Mookie Betts and former Cy Young winner David Price from Boston to Los Angeles.