Rafael Devers 2025 season was defined by the plaque domination and a prolonged dispute with the Boston Red Sox above its field position. Now he will also be known for an exchange of superproductions.
The Giants of San Francisco have acquired deverses in a business that will send the launchers Jordan Hicks and Kyle Harrison, as well as the minor leaguers James Tibbs and Jose Bello, in Boston, The club announced Sunday.
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The Giants have would have agreed to contract the entire current deversal contract, which will pay him $ 254.5 million during the eight seasons after this one. Currently inclined as a designated striker, Devers took advantage of one of the best seasons in his career on the plate, reaching .271 / .400 / .494 and leading the league in walks with 55.
Devers did not ask for trade, according to Chris Cotillo de Masslive.
The move ends a term of nine season in Boston for Devers, which was part of the club of the World Series of the club and obtained three heads of the stars. He signed the largest contract in the history of the franchise in 2023, worth $ 313.5 million and was the last remaining member of this 2018 team.
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Now he is going out – and not exactly in the happiest circumstances.
Rafael Devers has had major problems with the Red Sox Front Office
The problems started when the Red Sox signed the former third goal player from Houston Astros Alex Bregman A $ 120 million contract over three years in free agency Last winter.
Before 2025, Devers had spent his entire career in the third goal. As a general rule, a player who has played for an organization for years and is under contract for many years would be the one who can keep his position, but the uncomfortable truth was that Bregman, a Gold Glover, is much better to play the third goal than Devers, which was rarely classified in the warm corner in the best moments.
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Disarken It is very clear that it was not satisfied to be invited to give in his position but Finally conceded to training in the spring that it would be good by serving as Boston DH. It seemed to be the end – until the first goal player of the Red Sox Triston Casas broke his patellar tendon in May.
There was then a thought that Devers could make the common transition from the third goal to the first base to help his team cover a position in which they had few other acceptable options. Boston’s front office seemed to think, approaching a change of position that many observers supposed was inevitable, even without Bregman.
Disarken replied by going from burnt earthQuestioning the wisdom of the move with the journalists, accusing the team of lying to him and telling him that he did not understand the decisions that the director general Craig Breslow took. The situation has become bad enough for The owner of the John Henry team gave himself up for Kansas City to meet on the roadWhere it was agreed that Devers would remain in DH.
We now know that it was not the end. On a related note, the Giants should face the Red Sox next weekend.
Rafael Devers had his problems with the Red Sox. Now he heads for San Francisco. (AP photo / Noah K. Murray)
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Rafael Devers will still not play the third base for the Giants
You would assume that a player despised by a change of position would come back to his favorite position after a job, but the punchline here is that Devers will not play the third base for the Giants either.
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The Giants have an even better third goal player in fivefold Gold Glover Matt Chapman, who signed an extension of $ 151 million over six years with San Francisco last year. Unless there is another blow, the pair will be teammates for at least one other half-receiver.
Chapman is currently on the injured list due to the inflammation of the right hand and should return to the first half of the season, but it remains to be seen if Devers dates back to the third in the short term. He stayed in DH when Bregman hit IL in Boston.
Despite this, Jon Heyman from the New York Post reports This delay is satisfied with the move. All this could have been more than a change of position.
The giants get the battle-necessary bat with Rafael Dévers
Boston’s discomfort will be the gain of the giants. Currently in second place in the NL West at 41-30, the Giants boast of one of the best employees of branching in baseball – and a mediocre offense.
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The giants entered the Sunday 20th ranking in MLB by WRC +, which assesses offensive contributions while correcting the Oracle park adapted to launchers.
Devers could either keep the course on the designated striker, or finally try First Base, but in any case, he gives the giants a strong bat in the middle of the order which can slip among Chapman, Willy Adames, Jung Hoo Lee and Mike Yastrzemski. You should wonder how the offensive profile of deserves will work at Oracle Park, which deletes celebrates left-wing strikers, but talents as well as permanent are rarely available like this.
Another deductible talent leaves Boston
Whatever the circumstances of the exit from the devers, one cannot ignore that another franchise talent comes out of the Red Sox.
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In fact, the NL West is now a constellation of old Red Sox stars. The giants have delay. The Los Angeles Dodgers have Mookie Betts, which the Red Sox exchanged in 2020 in an agreement now infamous stimulated by their refusal to pay it. The Padres de San Diego have Xander Bogaerts, who left for a free agency for an agreement of $ 110 million $ 110 million two years ago. Even the Diamondbacks of Arizona have the launcher leaving Eduardo Rodriguez.
There is also Chris Sale, who won a Cy Young Prize with the Braves of Atlanta last year.
The post-sox careers of these players have been varied, but it is a trend defining the franchise at the moment. Their list has mainly returned since their last team of qualifying series in 2021, largely because the team made a conscious decision not to pay for its biggest names.
Boston has bet big to win again this season with the Bregman Deal and the trade for the launcher leaving Garrett Crochet, but this bet is now extremely contingent for young perspectives such as Marcelo Mayer and Roman Anthony quickly turning into stars.