PHOENIX — Can Mookie Betts once again be anMVP-caliber offensive player?
“Absolutely,” Dodgers manager Dave Roberts said.
Relayed Roberts’ words hours later, Betts was unmoved.
“I don’t care about none of that,” he said.
Betts sounded emotionally shut down, but that was only until he started explaining what he meant by saying he didn’t care.
“I just want to win,” he said. “It ain’t got nothing to do with me. Play well, cool. I don’t, cool. As long as we win, that’s all I care about.”
Out of the mouths of most other players, those sentences would have sounded like empty words intended to mask the speaker’s insecurities. Except Betts continued talking, and the more he spoke, the more he demonstrated an intimate understanding of what these common sayings really mean.
“I’m too old to be caring about stuff for me now, man,” he said. “Life is not about me anymore. I got kids. I got a family to take care of.I got this (team) to take care of.The more I focus on taking care of those things for other people, it seems like the more God has blessed me.”
Betts and his wife have a 7-year-old daughter and 2-year-old son. The couple is expecting their third child next month.
Becoming a father for the first time didn’t change him right away.
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