Jones & Keefe: Rafael Devers can be upset, but he needs to get over himself

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00:00So he feels lied to, he feels misled, which, look, I think Breslau and Cora and everybody

00:06else should have done a better job of keeping Devers in the loop and saying, hey, you know what?

00:11We're in on this guy. He's going to be our third base. But like, they needed to communicate that

00:15better. But at the end of the day, tough. It's professional sports. You're getting your contract

00:19either way. Oh, by the way, you suck at third base. This guy's better than you. The team has

00:24sucked when you've been at third base. So I know it's not ideal, Rafi. I know we told you before

00:29we weren't going to bring in Bregman. We weren't going to bring in Arenado. We thought maybe there

00:33wasn't anything to it. Turns out John Henry decided he actually wanted to spend money.

00:37We didn't think he would. And now he's going to be our third baseman. Sorry if you feel lied to,

00:42but that's the situation. You've got to deal with it. And what he did is he considered demanding

00:46a trade in the offseason. But I mean, what's the point of lying to him? I don't really get it.

00:52So like, hey, keep him at ease. And we're going to, we're going to not sign. Even though all

00:55offseason long, I think we just answered it. Those two names. Why? They probably didn't believe at

00:59the end of the day, Henry was going to spend the money. So maybe it was that, but I feel like

01:02everybody else, we talked about Bregman and Arenado all off season. Those names came up all

01:07the time. And there were reporters like Ken Rosenthal being like Bregman might play second

01:11base. Like that name didn't go away. And so it was, unless Devers just had his head in the sand

01:17on it, he must've been like, there's something here guys. There's something here. I just think

01:21if Breslow and Cora were lying to him the whole time, it does make sense why he reacted the way

01:27that he did. That wasn't, that was more of a message to those guys. And maybe even in the

01:32back of his mind, he's like, yeah, I'll DH, I'm making $30 million. I will do that. But I feel

01:37like you guys, yeah. Kind of like, why did you guys have to do that? Why did you tell me that

01:42you weren't doing that? Because it came across, you know, pretty outrageous for a guy that did

01:46want at adds to the team. You want good players in here. You want her to compete again. They do

01:52that. But if the whole time they're like, don't worry about the Bregman thing. Don't worry about

01:55the Bregman thing. Then they sign Bregman. And then he's being asked about it. Yeah. He's probably

01:59pissed at Cora and Breslow, or at least the guys that whoever lied to him, he's gotta be mad at

02:03that.