The move came as a shock to Red Sox fans still salty over the salary dump of Mookie Betts in 2020 – a year after he won the AL MVP – in a trade that yielded little in return. The team also let Xander Bogaerts leave as a free agent before deciding that Devers was the player they were willing to invest in.

Ex-MLB GM Goes Scorched Earth on Red Sox Brass for Trading Rafael Devers originally appeared on Athlon Sports.

RHP Jordan Hicks, LHP Kyle Harrison, OF James Tibbs III, RHP Jose Bello Andy McCullough: Here is the good news for the Giants: They are receiving the best player in the trade. Rafael Devers, for all his flaws as a defender and for all of his apparent defensiveness about the general concept of changing positions,