Mookie Betts on MLB’s Opening Day: ‘You still get those butterflies’
The Red Sox' star right fielder said the first day of the season "never gets old."
Mookie Betts won the American League MVP, his third Gold Glove award, his second Silver Slugger, and the AL batting title in 2018. He stared down the highest-pressure situations baseball offers in the World Series last October and succeeded alongside his Red Sox teammates.
Even after all that, the Red Sox’ superstar said he still feels butterflies at the start of a new MLB season.
“A lot,” Betts said in the Red Sox locker room when asked what Opening Day means to him. “The more Opening Days the better. It never gets old. It’s one of those things where as it comes you embrace it, get ready, you still get those butterflies, which means you care.”
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— Joe Giza (@JoeGiza) March 28, 2019
Betts, 26, enters his fifth season with the Red Sox as the team mounts its World Series title defense. He was originally drafted by the team in the fifth round of the 2011 MLB June Amateur Draft. In 2018, Betts hit .346/.438/.640 with 32 home runs and 80 RBIs.
