Rafael Devers Traded from Red Sox to Giants: Will it Work?

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00:00We hear about these things weeks in advance of the possibility of a trade.

00:03Devers traded right out from under us on Sunday night

00:07from the Boston Red Sox over to the San Francisco Giants.

00:10Your thoughts when you saw Raphael Devers on the move?

00:15Apparently the 0-19 start and them asking him to take a seat

00:18is still doing, right?

00:20That's what it kind of felt like.

00:21It just kind of felt like it was a residual over from the beginning of the year

00:25and the acrimony that started between these two teams.

00:27And clearly the Red Sox are in the habit of dealing high-level players

00:31who have big contracts that were cornerstone pieces of their franchise

00:35to teams out in California.

00:36So it's not like we haven't seen this script before from Boston.

00:39But, I mean, objectively, the problem is that the Red Sox didn't get better in the trade

00:44in any size, way, shape, or form.

00:46I mean, the San Francisco Giants got objectively one of the 15 best hitters

00:50in all of Major League Baseball.

00:52And the Boston Red Sox, in return, got not one of the other 14 best hitters

01:00in Major League Baseball.

01:02So you didn't get better.

01:04And that's a problem.

01:05I mean, look, as a Yankee fan, I'm happy to see Devers go

01:07because he absolutely owned the Yankees for years

01:10and destroyed Yankee pitching across the board.

01:12But this wasn't a move that Boston said, hey, we're in all-in mode right now.

01:18They sold off salary, and they're looking younger,

01:21and I don't know that they're recovering.

01:22I would tell you this much.

01:24Bet a lot of Boston team total unders until further notice.