Boston – The Boston Red Sox exchanged Rafael Devers to the San Francisco giants on Sunday in an agreement that could shake band glow races on both coasts.
The devers agent, Nelson Montes de Oca, confirmed the agreement to Associated Press. ESPN reported that the giants are sending Boston a package of players that includes launchers Jordan Hicks and Kyle Harrison for the 28 -year -old designated hitter, who had wandered in his degradation of the third base this year.
The giants were a game behind the Los Angeles Dodgers in the first place that went to Sunday night’s confrontation among the national league rivals. The San Francisco Campocorto, Willy Adames, said the ESPN transmission that the team discovered about the exchange 15-20 minutes before the game.
“Everyone is so excited,” he said in an interview in the field while playing the field in the second post. “I personally, I am delighted to have it on the team. It is one of the best batters in the game and have it in the team, I think it will help us to do a lot of harm in the division. Obviously we need a bat like him in this alignment.”
A three times there that signed a 10-year contract and $ 313.5 million with the red socks in 2023, Devers is hitting .272 with 15 homers and 58 races promoted in 73 games, including a solo opportunity in Boston’s 2-0 victory over the New York Yankes on Sunday that completed a scanning of three games.
But his relationship with the team began to deteriorate when the team signed the third base of Gold Glove Alex Bregman during spring training and asked Devers to move to DH; He resisted before accepting the switch. When the first Triston Casas base suffered a knee injury that ended the season, the red socks approached Devers about playing the field and refused, saying that the main office “should do their job” and look for another player.
A day after Devers’s comments to the media about playing first, the owner of the Red Medias, John Henry, the president of the Sam Kennedy team and the baseball director Craig Breslow flew to Kansas City to meet with Devers and the manager Alex Cora.
The situation became more difficult when Bregman suffered what the team called a significant injury in the right quadriceps on May 23.
“Everyone in the League, I think, were paying attention to that. When any team is having some kind of drama like that, with a player like Devers, it was basically the face of the franchise,” Adames said before being interrupted by Tommy Edman’s homer that gave the Dodgers a 2-0 advantage.
“We are delighted to have it. Everyone is excited. So we will feel at home,” said Adames. “I feel that he sends a message that we are going to compete. That we are going to do whatever is necessary to come here and win the division.”
The Red Sox have won five of six against the rival Yankees during the last two weekends to improve 37-36, but they are still fourth in the east, 6 1/2 games behind New York, leader of the division.
Devers was 20 when he made his debut in the Major Leagues with the Red Sox in 2017. He helped the Red Sox to win the World Series 2018 and led the team in races promoted during five consecutive seasons between 2020-24. It has ended among the top 20 to vote for the MVP five times.
Devers is not the first All-Star of the Red Sox to be exchanged: the team sent Mookie Betts to the Los Angeles Dodgers before the 2020 season in a wage overturn, only one year after winning the MVP award and took Boston to a 108 Wins franchise record and his fourth title of the World Series since 2004.
But the Devers agreement remembers the majority of the 2004 mid -season shaking when Boston exchanged a discontent campocorto, and the fans, Nomar Garciaparra to Minnesota.
The Red Sox won the World Series that year, ending their 86 -year -old championship drought.
This is the last great movement of Buster Posey, a seven times star that assumed the position of president of San Francisco baseball operations in September. He signed Justin Verlander with a one -year contract of $ 15 million in January and Adames to an agreement of $ 182 million and seven in December.
“It makes them better at this time, surely,” said the Dodgers pitcher, Clayton Kershaw, in a television interview with Dugout at Dodger Stadium. “Buster Posey really is doing it. Well for Buster there. He is going for that. He would consider Raffy one of the 10 best batters in the game, in the worst case. It is definitely a change of play. It will be interesting to see what position he plays there.”
