Monday, June 16, 2025

Rafael Devers to the Giants

Some miscellaneous thoughts on the trade that sent Rafael Devers from the Red Sox to the San Francisco Giants:

  • Many Boston fans are calling this a salary dump and that the Red Sox owner is just a cheapskate who doesn't care about winning any more. The sad part is if John Henry ever sells the Red Sox - he'll make billions doing it. 
  • In Rafael Devers defense - who knows what the Red Sox front office or ownership promised him before he signed that big 10-year contract. He could quite simply be pissed that they broke their word to him. Knowing how Boston has treated other players - I wouldn't doubt if this was the case.
  • Dodgers' ace Clayton Kershaw on the Devers trade.
  • Waiting for the Boston Globe's Bob Hohler to do a hit piece on Devers now. This has been John Henry's MO in the past.
  • Reminder that not only did the Red Sox scapegoat and move on from players - they also scapegoated and moved on from Theo Epstein, Tito Francona, and after his team won the 2018 World Series GM Dave Dombrowski. The only common link is John Henry.

2 comments:

  1. Who knows what they promised him? But we do know: they promised him ***$300 million*** , that's what. For that kind of money one would expect that he'd play wherever they told him to . . . but no, not Rafi. He's a quintessential prima donna. To be honest I'm not unhappy to see him go (unlike Mookie and Xander), but I wish they had gotten something other than scrubs in return.

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  2. Queue the Don Draper "that's what the money is for!" meme :)

    Seriously - I'm in your boat in that I'd rather see Betts and Bogaerts instead of Story (no fault of his own) or Devers. Just sick of John Henry - he makes Ted Williams' son look likeable.

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