By most measures, the Rafael Devers commerce occurred all of a sudden. It got here with out advance discover of his availability, and the Crimson Sox reportedly weren’t purchasing him round. Instantly, it drew comparisons to the Luka Dončić-Anthony Davis commerce within the NBA, as a result of infrequently in our scoops-driven media panorama, the place even the tiniest rumor is handled as forex, does a transaction involving a famous person catch us without warning.
And but, now that the shock has worn off, buying and selling Devers appears like a logical end result to the saga that started in March, when the Crimson Sox signed Alex Bregman to play third base with out giving the incumbent a heads up. The main points of the following rift have been coated at nice size, at FanGraphs and elsewhere, so I received’t go into them right here. Plenty of the reporting for the reason that commerce has described the scenario in Boston as untenable, and the injury accomplished to the connection between Devers and the crew as irreparable. However based mostly on how badly the Crimson Sox botched their preliminary response to the battle, after which stored bungling their subsequent makes an attempt at reconciliation, from my perspective, it looks as if they didn’t make repairing it a lot of a precedence.
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