Let me show you something.



Here is a lineup the Dodgers could unveil on Opening Day:



Mookie Betts, RF



Max Muncy, 1B



Justin Turner, 3B



Cody Bellinger, CF



Joc Pederson, LF



Corey Seager, SS



Gavin Lux, 2B



Will Smith, C



Seriously. Look at that lineup. The Dodgers could do this.



After months of posturing and preliminary discussions, the team remains engaged with Boston about a trade involving Mookie Betts, according to people familiar with the situation. The Dodgers have the financial resources and the prospects necessary to acquire Betts, the 2018 American League MVP and a consensus top-five player in the sport. As new Red Sox chief baseball officer Chaim Bloom ponders how to forge his franchise’s path forward, the Dodgers and the Padres loom as the most likely landing spots for Betts, if a trade is to be consummated.



Andrew Friedman, the Dodgers president of baseball...