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Rafael Devers’ position saga continues, and now it seems that the front office will be involved.
Devers, who has played the third base all his career with Boston Red Sox, was in a peculiar place when the team signed Alex Bregman, also a lifelong third basseman (and a much better defensive), shortly before the season started.
Devers is a three-time all-star, and despite plenty of revenue in Boston (especially trade with Mookie Betts by 2020), Dervers was the one star the team chose to keep. They signed him for an 11-year agreement worth $ 313.5 million ahead of the 2023 season, which would have been a contract year.
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Mar 27 2025; Arlington, Texas: Boston Red Sox Designated Hitter Rafael Devers (11) goes in the dugout in the first place against Texas Rangers on Globe Life Field. (Tim Heitman-Preferred Pictures)
But despite both sides showing loyalty to each other in these discussions, there is now some intense drama glue.
The plan, after Bregman signed, seemed to be moving DEVERS to second place, but Devers actually only has DH’D this year. Bregman, meanwhile, has staffed the hot corner, and the emergence of rookie Kristian Campbell at Second has left Dervers without a position in the field.
Well, first Baseman Triston Casas is out in the season with a knee injury, and Sox approached Devers with the idea of playing the first base, but he shut it down quite quickly.
Now it is reported that sox owner John Henry, general manager Craig Breslow and team president Sam Kennedy all flew to Kansas City, where Sox plays this weekend to meet with the four-time all-star.
Manager Alex Cora spoke privately with Dervers on Friday, and it has been reported that Dervers’ attitude to the positions has not been well received in the clubhouse.
Rafael Devers, No. 11 of Boston Red Sox, responds before a spring training Grapefruit League match against Tampa Bay Rays on February 26, 2023 in Jetblue Park in Fenway South in Fort Myers, Florida. (Billie Weiss/Boston Red Sox/Getty Images)
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During his public counter -movement of the potential position change, Derver’s Red Sox ‘past instructions related to him cited with him using his glove.
“I know I’m a ballplayer, but at the same time they can’t expect me to play every single position out there,” Devers said via a translator, per. Boston Globe. “In the spring training they talked to me and told me basically to remove my glove that I would not play any other position but DH.”
“So right now I just feel like it’s not an appropriate decision from them to ask me to play another position,” he added.
Devers then questioned whether Breslow, the Pitcher-Vinded Team Manager, had a certain level of dissatisfaction with him.
“I’m not sure what [issue] He has with me, “Devers told journalists.” He played ball and I would like to think he knows that changing positions like it’s not easy. “
DEVERS is currently affecting .253, his lowest since a .240 campaign in 2018, his second year in the big leagues. He leads the American league in both strikes and walks.
Boston Red Sox’s Rafael Devers, right, celebrates with Adam Duvall, Left, after scoring his home driving in the seventh round of a baseball match against New York Mets, Sunday 23 July 2023, in Boston. (AP Photo/Steven mustne)
He hasn’t played another position since playing a game on shortstop in 2023, out of desperation. In total, he has played three career entrances in each middle field position and well over 8,000 in the third.
