“I definitely wouldn’t have went to the highest bidder. If I could have done it over again I would have gone into more detail into everything. I didn’t do any research about nothing. I didn’t know much about Boston, only when I played there. If I went into a little more depth as to what I was getting myself into things probably would have been a little different.”
He added, “Once I realized it and I had seven years I didn’t know what to do. It was just one of those things I had to sit out and wait.”
$22 million a year buys a lot of therapy via which, one would hope, one could figure out how to overcome playing baseball in an unpleasant place for a year and a half, but I guess Crawford hasn’t found the right therapist yet.
Oh well. Free agency gives a player great power. And as Uncle Ben told Peter Parker, with great power comes great responsibility. Like, the responsibility of say, Googling “what is it like to play for the Boston Red Sox.” Or picking up the phone and calling someone who might have played for the Boston Red Sox before.