Jones & Keefe: Can the Red Sox keep the momentum going post Devers trade?

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00:00I'm not justifying the lack of a return because they saved some money.

00:03I don't care about that.

00:03And that part is just really hard to defend because as a fan,

00:06you're like, all right,

00:07we're already spending through the nose to go to these games.

00:09It's the most expensive ticket,

00:10the most expensive beer and hot dog.

00:12Like it's,

00:13it's the whole thing.

00:14So I,

00:14you want to spend money on the team and for years,

00:18they kind of haven't.

00:20Then they kind of did.

00:21It's funny because Devers was one of the guys that they did.

00:22It was like,

00:23they'll never sign another $300 million deal.

00:24They're not going to give it to Mookie Betts.

00:26They're not going to give it to anybody.

00:27They do sign Devers.

00:28This is another thing Julie McWilliams had in the story.

00:30Bloom didn't want to give Devers the contract.

00:32Ownership was like,

00:34we got to pay somebody.

00:35We didn't pay Bogarts.

00:36We didn't pay Betts.

00:38They're freaking out.

00:38So we're going to,

00:39we have to pay Devers.

00:40That was an ownership call.

00:41Yeah.

00:41They got kind of bullied into it.

00:43But then I think they realized like,

00:44oh man,

00:45like we don't,

00:46we don't want this guy anymore,

00:48but where they can get a little bit off the hook,

00:51it would be not in the next month or so.

00:53I don't think,

00:54but more so in the off season,

00:55which is too bad because we have a season to play.

00:58They just have won five in a row.

01:00You're like,

01:00all right,

01:00maybe they can make a run at this thing.

01:02You remove one of your best hitters.

01:03You don't really add anything.

01:04That's going to help this team.

01:05Do you think they're done making moves?

01:08No,

01:08no,

01:08no.

01:08Do you think they're like done?

01:09Like they had turned their season around.

01:11It felt like,

01:11do you think,

01:12do you think they're going to go back into the toilet?

01:14Or do you think they can keep the momentum going without Devers?

01:16No,

01:16I think they can definitely keep the momentum going without Devers.

01:18Me too.

01:18I think they could,

01:19they could spark it.

01:20I mean,

01:20look at a guy,

01:20they trade Garrett Crochet.

01:22They trade him.

01:23No,

01:23he's still on the team every fifth day.

01:24Like,

01:24I think they're going to be,

01:26I think they're going to be all right.

01:27I think other guys are going to step up.

01:28There's going to be some more opportunity for some other guys.

01:30It could be a little bit of a rallying cry in there too.

01:33Whether the teammates are like glad that he's gone or whether they're

01:36pissed that he's gone.

01:37There's that.

01:38Yeah.

01:38Like the players might,

01:39he's a rain cloud hovering over the team.

01:43And so there is that element.

01:45You need Anthony and Meyer to start hitting.

01:46Like,

01:47no,

01:47like no more.

01:48Okay.

01:48They just got here.

01:49Yeah.

01:49No more.

01:50That was good contact.

01:51No,

01:51you guys need to get on base and you need Bregman back.

01:54But yeah,

01:54I think,

01:54I think they can keep winning without Devers.

01:56Uh,

01:57he hasn't been hitting basically all month.

01:58I know he had a home run the other,

01:59uh,

01:59yesterday.

02:00He hasn't been hitting in June and they've been red hot.

02:02So I think we're in,

02:04I understand people being upset because they're like,

02:06oh,

02:06that seemed like a salary dump more than anything else.

02:09But I think it's just the circumstances.

02:11It wasn't going to,

02:12they didn't go into the year thinking,

02:14all right,

02:14we'll find a way to dump his salary.

02:17Like it came to a head when both your corner infielders get.

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