Red Sox's Devers Refuses DH Role, Insists on 3rd Base

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00:00All right, let's get to the Boston Red Sox.

00:08They made news earlier in the week.

00:10Raphael Devers had a press conference and basically said, I ain't moving off third base.

00:15I'm a third baseman.

00:16I won't play DH.

00:17I won't play anywhere else.

00:18Alex Bregman was just signed.

00:19So, how's this going to work out?

00:21Buy or sell?

00:22George Devers will start more games at third than Bregman this season.

00:26Is that a buy or sell?

00:29Yeah, Devers is a horrific third baseman.

00:32He's bad.

00:33I think he ranks dead last in the league here.

00:34I think the only question for the Red Sox here is that Bregman could opt out at the

00:38end of this year.

00:39So, do you really want to ask somebody that you've signed for a long-term contract, what

00:43did Devers sign, 11 years, 321 million, he's going to be there forever.

00:47Do you want to ask him, and you're going to tick him off, to go play DH, and then next

00:51year, ah, my bad, go back to third base?

00:55You know, I think that's the only issue here, because the Red Sox are certainly a better

00:57team.

00:58But Bregman at third, you know, put up the youngster, put him at second base, and Devers

01:03at DH.

01:04You're a better team.

01:05And if Devers, by the way, if you care about winning, and by the way, Devers has bitched

01:08about, hey, we need to make moves here, we need to get better, well, they do that.

01:12And if you're still not, if you're going to be a problem moving to DH, then you don't

01:16care about winning.

01:17You don't.

01:18Anyway, if Devers starts more games at third base than Bregman this season, that's a sell

01:22for me.

01:23I think he starts very few unless Bregman gets hurt.

01:25All right, I think Coro is going to talk, Devers, apparently they are closing, listen,

01:30you got to move, buddy.

01:31I'm sorry.

01:32You got to move.

01:33We're a better team with Bregman at third.

01:34I think he's dug in here, man.

01:36I don't know.

01:37I know that there was a report a few days ago that they were talking about it and, you

01:40know, sort of working things out.

01:41But I think in the end, cooler heads will prevail, but I don't know when that's going

01:46to be.

01:47I'm going to, um, I'm going to buy this, I'm going to buy this.

01:51I'm going to say that Devers starts like 90 games at third base this season.

01:56And I think that'll probably be the compromise here.

01:59I think that Bregman will start some, Devers will start some.

02:03Bregman's still a gold glove third baseman at this stage of his career.

02:06It doesn't really add up.

02:08You know, the other thing that happened is over the course of Big Poppy's career, he

02:11moved off first base, he went to DH and Big Poppy was Devers, right?

02:16I mean, pretty similar in stature there, but Devers just seems to be really dug in

02:21on this.

02:22I think if it was going to happen, George, we would know by now.

02:25And it hasn't.

02:26We just heard that it may.

02:28So I am going to buy, I don't think Devers plays 150 at third base or even 140 or anything

02:33like that.

02:34But I do think he plays more than Bregman at third.

02:37I think that they have a compromise where they play both.

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