It’s locking up Scottie Pippen on a team-friendly deal — another source of frustration in the miniseries — and building around an underpaid star. Think Anthony Rizzo or Chris Sale or Christian Yelich and all the below-market extensions that changed the shape of baseball’s free-agent market. It’s viewing every player as a short- or long-term asset and maximizing club control. While trading away a future Hall of Famer like Pippen sounds unthinkable now, the Red Sox traded away Mookie Betts, a homegrown MVP, before he could become a free agent and the luxury taxes became too expensive for a franchise that Forbes values at $3.3 billion.