Rafael Devers' Early Season Struggles with the Red Sox

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00:00Raphael Devers may be the face of the franchise and says,

00:03you know what?

00:04I'm going to take my game to the next level.

00:05But first, oh, you made a trade where you don't want me

00:08to play third base.

00:09No, I want to play third base.

00:10Now you want to make me a DH.

00:11Now I'm really unhappy and I'm so unhappy.

00:14I don't have a base hit and I struck out 10 times

00:17on opening weekend and we're not even through Sunday.

00:19Raphael Devers here, Tom.

00:20Come on now.

00:2210 strikeouts, the most in MLB history

00:25for the first three games of a season.

00:28It is, it is not good.

00:30And a lot of people were talking in the off season

00:31that, you know, Devers for as much of a liability

00:34as on defense, he's a player that like needs to be

00:37in the rhythm of the game.

00:38He needs to be out there on defense.

00:39You need a weather that kind of storms the ups and downs

00:41because he is an amazing hitter.

00:43It's actually not shown through the first three games,

00:44but he's an all-star caliber hitter.

00:46He can hit 30, 35 home runs, a hundred RBIs.

00:48And we agreed that this Red Sox team is a team

00:51that we're excited about this year.

00:52The improvements that they made in pitching,

00:54the young talent that they have, that lineup can be good.

00:57He needs to be a very, very big part of that.

01:00Or we're going to see some,

01:01we're going to see some issues with Boston this year.

01:03Like if this is a sign of things to come,

01:05it could be, it could get late early for them.

01:09Now we just had that a couple of graphics pop up,

01:11like how actual good Aaron Judge has been.

01:14Reflective in the market, we'll get to in just a moment.

01:16How bad Rafael Devers has been.

01:18Keep in mind, it's 162 games.

01:20They've only played a few games here.

01:22You can respond, you can rebound and not play good baseball

01:24and play good baseball at the same time.

01:27Check out the AL market right now as where it sits.

01:30Aaron Judge coming into this morning was a plus 155 price.

01:33He's down to plus 150.

01:35Coming into the season here, he was a three to one price.

01:37He cut his number in half.

01:39Rafael Devers was a 30 to one favorite to be the AL MVP.

01:44He's 60 to one today, just a few days later.

01:48So you talk about the ebbs and flows of,

01:49yeah, we expect it in high expectations.

01:51We're not throwing the baby out

01:53with the bathwater on Devers.

01:54He dropped $30 in one betting market here, Tom.

01:59One betting market and, you know,

02:01how much of this is to do with Judge himself,

02:03just running away with things at least through three games

02:06and the combination of Devers, you know,

02:08going O of 10 or whatever it is with a million strikeouts

02:11to start the season.

02:12Like these things are happening at the same time,

02:14which is hilarious.

02:15Devers is a good hitter.

02:17If you don't have a bet on him now,

02:18would I recommend betting on him?

02:19No, of course not.

02:20I think with the current odds,

02:21something like you worked on at 19 to one,

02:24even Corey Seager on the other side of that series

02:26for the Red Sox, like 14 to one,

02:28those are fine spots to look,

02:30especially even someone like Gunnar Henderson at 12 to one.

02:32But the combination of both things happening

02:34at the same time is so interesting.

02:36But again, if this were to happen in June,

02:39on June 30th and Devers goes through a stretch

02:42where he's O of 10,

02:43I don't think that would be that much of a difference.

02:45Like it's more dramatic now because he doesn't have a hit,

02:48but if you already had five home runs,

02:4910 home runs under his belt,

02:50this would just be a drop in the pan

02:54or a flash in the pan.

02:55Absolutely.

02:56And I completely agree with you,

02:57which is why I love to see the open market analysis.

02:59Like after three games, like this guy can't play anymore.

03:02And then he winds up with 35 home runs,

03:03hits 290 on the season.

03:05He got an unbelievable discount

03:06because of how much he was struggling to start the season

03:08in colder temperatures,

03:10getting accustomed to new pitchers that he's facing here.

03:12These guys will be just fine.

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