Red Sox Reportedly Saved Money Last Year by Giving Fake World Series Rings to Scouts and Staffers

The Boston Red Sox are worth $3.2 billion, and owner John Henry alone is worth $2.7 billion. Despite all that, the Red Sox have been crying poverty and acting like one of the least profitable teams in the league over the last 15 months since securing a title.

The trade of Mookie Betts and David Price to the Los Angeles Dodgers that helped line the Henry's pockets with some extra cash now that Boston is under the luxury tax threshold was bad enough, but it appears the Red Sox' penny-pinching ways date back to 2018. In an effort to skimp at the margins, they gave scouts and player development staffers fake championship rings that featured lab-created cubic zirconia, sapphires, and rubies, rather than genuine stones.

"The guys that scouted and developed Mookie Betts got a fake ring," the source said. "The guy that signed Mookie got a fake ring."

Now that's the sign of a well-run organization. Not only are they refusing to pay their best players, but they're not even compensating the behind-the-scenes employees that make the entire operation work correctly.

Only the Yankees and Dodgers are worth more than the Red Sox, but that hasn't stopped Henry from cutting costs at every possible avenue in a comically over-the-top way. This is nothing short of a major embarrassment for one of the proudest organizations in baseball.