Thoughts on Devers' struggles? Are you worried, or is it too early?

WEEI-FM / WEEI

#RedSox lose 3 in a row to Rangers. DH Rafael Devers went 0-16 in series with 12Ks. Thoughts on Devers' struggles? Are you worried, or is it too early?

Transcript

00:00And speaking of other cluster Fs, let's get to the Boston Red Sox, if you could, Chris.

00:06Okay, so what happened over the weekend, it was almost, I almost felt sad for Rafael Devers.

00:16Like that was, I mean, obviously historic. I'm sure Courtney will get to the numbers of the

00:22strikeouts or whatever, like 12. It's okay. So Courtney's lead is all over that. So

00:27what I would just simply say is Rafael Devers is closing in on a point where he will be the most

00:36hated Boston athlete by a wide margin. If you show up and there's this off season of finally,

00:42there's this renaissance of Red Sox stock, they're reinvesting in the organization.

00:47And a guy gets paid $32 million to DH shows up, I guess, out of shape, or at least out of baseball

00:53shape, can't catch up to a fastball. And you could basically blame him for losing three out

00:58of four of the weekend. Is it, do you think that he's out of shape or did he basically hold a one

01:05man protest for most of spring training and not get the reps in that he needed to get in? And

01:12he was being, he was pouting and being a baby all, all spring training long.

01:19And now he's not ready to go. I mean, I don't really, I don't think it has anything to do with

01:23that. I think it is all psychological. If you watch him, his timings off, like the way he's

01:28lifting his head up, everything mechanically looks off for him. And that is all psychological,

01:33in my opinion, that, that, I don't think it's the shape thing. Cause I heard, um,

01:39who was doing the broadcast with Lou, uh, is it Mala? He was talking about how he,

01:44he tried to lean towards the shape thing. And then they talked about like his back leg and

01:49everything, like who the hell knows, you know, you dive into the weeds with the baseball,

01:53but I'm with Courtney. This thing is from the neck up. And how much of that is because of the whole

02:00moving from third base to DH that mentally he's kind of all over the place. Okay. You want to give

Category

Transcript

Recommended