Do you agree with Casas' comments on the Devers situation?

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Do you agree with Casas' comments on the Devers situation? #MLB Casas: "Best third baseman in the league." Do you like that he addressed the 3B issue?

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00:00First of all, I guess it's possible that he's trolling the entire world with his comments,

00:08or it is possible that he is a Gen Z-er who has absolutely no understanding of the way

00:19in which a hierarchy might work, and the answer that I might have given if I had been asked,

00:27if I had been Tristan Kassas, were that, maybe with a little chuckle, that decision

00:33is above my pay grade.

00:36That's made by the guy in charge of our ball club, Alex Cora, and I have full faith in

00:43whatever decision he makes.

00:44That might have been the answer that I would have given.

00:47He's a ride or die, though.

00:48In my opinion, he's probably boys with Devers.

00:52They go back a long way, and I think that he's going to stick up for whatever he wants.

00:56Clearly, Devers, and I've seen some reports or people just thinking that there was a language

01:01issue, and that's why Devers, it didn't land the way that he thought it would, and maybe

01:06he was joking.

01:08I didn't take it that way.

01:09I think Devers has been clear that he doesn't want to move, and I think that Kassas is backing

01:13his friend.

01:14There's a way to go about doing it, but then again, I think today's players are completely

01:22different.

01:23They say things, and they look at it from a completely different angle than you might

01:27look at it because of your time on this earth and all the things that you've been through.

01:33You might look at it in a different way, but I think younger players look at things differently.

01:37I know.

01:38I get what you're getting at, which is I am near boomers.

01:45My parents did not convince me over 20 years that I had a right to have a say in everything

01:54that goes on at every place that I work at, so yes, you're correct about that.

01:58I would ask this question, though, guys.

02:02Tristan Kassas says this, and I highly doubt he and Devers are going bowling at Kings,

02:08but maybe I'm wrong.

02:11Where is there the Alex Cora role in all of this, where to me, Bregman is like Rodney

02:19Harrison joining the Patriots.

02:22He rubbed a lot of people the wrong way when he arrived, but he was brought in for a reason

02:27because he was a disciplined guy that was going to get under your skin and get the most

02:30out of you.

02:32I feel like a part of the reason this organization has failed in the second half so often is

02:37because they have guys like Kassas that are more worried about their fingernails than

02:40they are about winning in the playoffs, and you have a guy like this who enters the clubhouse

02:46who is going to be a leader that is a champion twice, that Alex Cora specifically singled

02:52out to bring in more than any player, and the guys on this team that are pissed about

02:57it, maybe that's why he's here.

02:59Does that make sense?

03:01That Kassas and others could use a kick in the ass by a guy like Bregman, and that's

03:05why they're so defensive right now.

03:07Well yeah.

03:08I mean, it's one of the reasons that I was excited when there started to be talk about

03:15getting him because he brings, you know, like the, we've met, we've now overused the phrase

03:23the adult in the room, but he brings the, the, the veteran presence that you need when

03:30you have a bunch of young guys and you have a bunch of guys who are not necessarily used

03:36to winning.

03:38Right, but these guys have been playing baseball long enough to know, like, this is the basics.

03:41This is like the common sense thing.

03:43This is the thing you learn in Little League, the competition and competing for spots.

03:49So Tristan Kassas hasn't learned yet that it's Alex Cora who writes the lineup card?

03:56Like he hasn't figured out yet that, I mean, he's going to stand there with a straight

04:02face and tell you that Raphael Devers is the best third baseman in Major League Baseball.

04:09Well, I think it's like to Courtney's point, he's kind of defending his boy a little bit

04:14by it's the thing that Devers and I think Kassas know you've been around the game long

04:21enough.

04:22You've been involved in it long enough that you should be competing for your spot when

04:26there's somebody that is equally as talented than you, or maybe even better.

04:30Doesn't it worry you a bit though, because Alex Bregman is Cora's guy, that you could

04:35look at Kassas and you could look at Devers and say, maybe they're pissed at Cora.

04:40Like to Curtis's point, I'm worried that there could end up being a divide with the introduction

04:45of Alex Bregman and what decision that Alex Cora makes with him.

04:49Like there could be guys that are now frustrated with it because it is a different player.

04:53It's not guys that understand the hierarchy.

04:55I think all of the players think that they're more important than Alex Cora and that they

04:58know better.

05:00That's the issue that I see happening.

05:02I think that that could happen, Courtney.

05:04I think that's, I think Cora is okay with that, that he knows this team needs to change

05:09to be on a different level.

05:11And just on a personal level, my guess is Kassas has had negotiations of varying degrees

05:17of intensity the last couple of years about an extension.

05:20He's at that stage where you're going to buy out some years now to get a bargain in the

05:24free agency.

05:25So both sides get guaranteed money and maybe the organization was balking saying, we don't

05:29have the money.

05:31And then poof, here comes the Cohiba and $40 million for Bregman and Kassas is butthurt.

05:36He didn't have it either.

05:37Yeah.

05:38Well, and probably in the back of his mind, if you start moving guys around in the infield,

05:44there's one less spot that's available maybe on, uh, over on first base.

05:49So I don't know.

05:50I, for some who did not hear it chime, cause I'm, I'm looking at the Subaru of New England

05:55tax line.

05:56Do you want to share the entirety of what Tristan Kassas said yesterday, please?

06:00I think, uh, I think it's, I think it's Rafi Devers position.

06:04I think he's, he's the third baseman.

06:07And at that point, that's where it stands and he's done it for, you know, a really long

06:12time now.

06:14And I think, uh, he's only getting better at that position.

06:16I think his defense is, um, getting better every single year.

06:21We don't know what the future holds, but we know it holds Rafi Devers.

06:24So I think he's got to play defense.

06:26It's going to keep him athletic and he's going to hit because of, you know, him being

06:31at third base.

06:32Uh, he doesn't know any other position.

06:34He doesn't, uh, want to play any other position and he's going to fight for it.

06:38Even if it's with any of the younger, younger guys, any new guy.

06:43Um, I, I mean, I think he's the best third baseman in the league.

06:46I wouldn't take him.

06:47I wouldn't take anybody over him.

06:49So, uh, I think he should play third base.

06:51Yeah.

06:52I think Bregman should play second.

06:53I think Bregman should play second base.

06:55Yeah.

06:56I think, uh, he's going to make the transition.

06:58Well, I think he's athletic enough too.

07:01And I think Trevor, you know, is going to play an awesome shortstop.

07:04Oh, who cares what you think?

07:06Right.

07:07It's not your decision.

07:08Wait, wasn't this guy who basically built a house in Worcester and had to be begged

07:13to come to the big league club as they were fighting for a playoff spot?

07:17Yes.

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