Where will Rafael Devers play to start the season? 3B?

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Where will Rafael Devers play to start the season? 3B? DH? Is he open to the idea of DH? What's the plan? #MLB

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00:00To grace us with his presence

00:03You he was participant in the FIM game yesterday shine

00:08And looks like he will be in the lineup. Yeah, finally this weekend. So we know there's a plan so

00:15I don't know if is this gonna be a thing?

00:18I'll see if they are they gonna have to placate the guy all season long when it comes to this Curtis

00:23I think so. This is an ugly spot

00:27I think you know the biggest key obviously and this goes without saying is winning early if the team gets off to a hot start

00:32He'll look really silly if he's bitching about it. I

00:36Just I I don't really know what his out is. He's got a guaranteed deal worth 350 million plus dollars

00:44He's gonna be asked just to hit the fan base supports the decision

00:47Do you think fans are gonna get behind Devers in this fight against Cora? No, I don't it doesn't sound like he's going quietly though

00:54He's continuing, you know, I appreciate the fact that he said I'll do whatever the Red Sox want me to do

01:00But he wants to make it clear

01:02that he is

01:04Continuing to fight for that job. So I and I don't know if that's a pride thing and he

01:12Just I mean does he not look and see

01:16What you get from Alex Bregman like everybody else does the only issue

01:20I think it comes out is like there's only two ways if they

01:25Decide to select let's say they say all right Devers. We're gonna put here

01:29We're gonna placate Devers and we're gonna make him feel good

01:32We're gonna start you a third base and then if things go wrong, we're gonna move into Bregman

01:36But that's you don't really want to do that because that becomes an issue

01:39The only other the other issue I see moving forward is if Devers says, all right

01:43I'll go to DH reluctantly and then and then he's bitching about and then he's but he's bitching about it

01:49And then after the season he goes, all right, I want to trade. Okay. Well, I mean, I don't care about the end of the season

01:54I I think that Devers is going to be in a losing battle. The fan base is wildly supportive of Cora

02:00They're overwhelmingly appreciative of the Bregman acquisition and they know that their best team is Bregman at third

02:07so whatever Devers says will come across as really

02:11sour grapes

02:12so I don't I don't worry about it being an issue in terms of the clubhouse either because

02:17Bregman has been so good at deflecting, you know, he's like Devers is a great player. I'm happy to be here

02:22I think that there really isn't much there's no leverage. The only leverage Devers has is to not show up

02:29What she'll he'll show up, but you don't see this, but isn't that what he's been doing? I

02:34Mean, he's physically there, but he hasn't played yet. And the leverage is is that he could say listen, I want to be traded

02:41Right, so

02:43This could be an issue down the road because remember Bregman's only on a three-year deal

02:48So there's a chance that whether it's at the end of this year or next year if he's being paid

02:5430 million dollars, right? I get it. I get it do what they want you to do. It's not that difficult, right?

03:02But you're right. They're not asking him to do two things. They're to have to do half his job, right?

03:08it's

03:11For the first time in a long time I have a legitimate chance

03:16especially when when it comes to the Yankees and injuries a

03:21legitimate chance to win the division right and

03:25the this guy if he's gonna be

03:30Whining all season is is gonna derail that well

03:33I don't think he derails that because I think that excuse me. I think that he'll go up really really

03:40Ironman today Wiggs persevere

03:44He'll go while everybody else is mailing days in left and right I'm being accused of being a soft manager

03:50Trying to do my part as people you got everybody riled up every everybody's jumping on board with you this morning on the text line

03:58I just call like I see it right saying I don't run a tight ship over here. Yeah, I mean, I don't

04:04Just call like I see it, you know, I mean which we're obviously what we're trying our best to

04:09To create a great show here and be number one and it's about having everybody here and and not taking days off

04:15But you know what? We're not like Belichick the no days off. We go with the other model take days off

04:20Yeah, so he's nine days off. So right so the way I would look at it like this

04:24The I don't think Devers allows it to bother him when he's at the plate

04:28And I don't think it becomes an issue in the in the clubhouse. I think it becomes an issue

04:33Down the road whether it's next offseason where he might say I want a tree, okay

04:39But nobody is going to trade for him to play third base

04:44Like some teams would play. No, no, they would not he'd say hey we could

04:48He's led the league in errors the last

04:51Three four years like I in the entire league, right?

04:55But I bet there are teams that could say not only are we getting a guy that might have some errors at third base

05:00But we're getting an unbelievable back at 30 million a year. Why wouldn't we trade for this guy?

05:05Who's only gonna be what 28 years old? I?

05:09Highly doubt that Devers this offseason if he doesn't have a great year and he's still bitching has much value to other teams with that

05:16Contract. Yeah, but what if he has a great year at the plate?

05:18We all believe that everybody wins then the silver socks are probably in the playoffs and everybody's happy

05:23But what if he still wants to play third base?

05:26Then you're in a better position then you could deal him if you wanted to that's my point

05:29My point that's a good. That's a great problem to have but my point is is that you're gonna you could potentially lose a

05:37You know, obviously a great bat that you're gonna have to you know, you'll get some assets for it

05:41Yeah, no, but that's great

05:43That means that the Devers and Brinkman had a great year and then they're gonna have good problems to solve in the offseason. I

05:51Just I mean he was bitching last year because he wanted them to add players, right

05:58They add players just on a third base

06:02Complaining but Greg this is why Cora was so dead set on Bregman in the first place

06:07This clubhouse needed people that were focused on winning not their own personal needs

06:13That's why Bregman was so important for Cora this offseason

06:17it's why he didn't go out of his way to warn Devers about it because the desired result of Bregman's arrival is being seen in the

06:23Poutiness of Tristan Cassis and Raphael Devers unless Devers after this season from DH and goes, you know

06:30What is bad as I thought it is?

06:33That it's not gonna be a big deal. But if he still wants to play third base

06:37What and Curtis probably is right that it'll be a good problem to have but you're probably even got you know

06:44You're gonna have to move on from Devers or you're gonna have to say

06:47All right

06:47How long is Bregman gonna be around if it's only a three-year deal?

06:51Do we have a prospect that we have in the pipeline or if we do trade Devers? We're able to get another prospect. Yeah

06:59And I would also say there's never been a DH alone in Boston

07:02That's ever had a lot of notoriety or landed in the Hall of Fame. So it's a position that's really hard to succeed at

07:07Oh wait, oh wait a minute. I think there's somebody here that has a bridge named after him

07:11Right, you can make a pretty good living you would think that would be the case

07:14But for clearly for whatever funky reason Devers in his mind does feels like if you put me to DH

07:21I

07:22I'm I'm not as part of the team as I'd like to be I want to be a third baseman

07:27For I would think that it's like dude less work

07:30Just to hit the ball. You don't have to worry about fielding. Yeah, I would think most guys would be on board. All right

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