Jones & Keefe: Rob Bradford expects Rafael Devers to be ready to go on Opening Day as the DH

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00:00How concerning is it that he is behind schedule?

00:04I don't, well, I don't think it's concerning,

00:06because I think when you get dropped

00:08into Texas for that first game, it

00:11was he's going to be able to hit the baseball.

00:13And really, that's all that counts

00:15when it comes to Rafael Devers.

00:16No matter what he says, no matter what anyone else says,

00:19he's going to be fine when it comes to that.

00:22Now, obviously, we're going to have to integrate,

00:24is he going to be able to feel the position

00:27if they put him out there?

00:28What we know right now is that he hasn't appeared in a game.

00:31He hasn't even appeared as a game's hitter,

00:33although that seems to be right around the corner.

00:35Alex Bregman has not played second base at all,

00:38although Alex Cora just said that maybe

00:41after this off day on Monday, they really

00:43lock in on who's playing where, because they're just

00:46trying to get guys with bats.

00:47But all we have to go by is the here and the now.

00:50And the here and the now just says to me,

00:52Devers will be ready for opening day as the D8.

00:55Bregman's going to be ready for opening day

00:57as the third baseman, and then they're

00:59going to really hope that Vaughn Grissom and David Hamilton

01:02can do a good enough job where, at least to start the year

01:05until Christian Campbell gets going, maybe in the minor leagues,

01:08that those guys are your second baseman.

01:10That's how it feels right now.