Red Sox deal Rafael Devers to the Giants!

[True Dough]

The San Francisco Giants are acquiring All-Star slugger Rafael Devers from the Boston Red Sox in a stunning move Sunday evening.

The Giants are sending starter Jordan Hicks, 23-year-old lefty Kyle Harrison, outfield prospect James Tibbs and another prospect, sources told ESPN's Jeff Passan.

Devers' agent, Nelson Montes de Oca, confirmed the Giants were acquiring the Red Sox star.

Devers, 28, is in the second season of a 10-year, $313.5 million contract he signed to stay in Boston in January 2023. The Red Sox will not send any money to cover the remaining $250 million-plus on Devers' contract, sources said.

https://www.espn.com/mlb/story/_/id/45520142/red-sox-trade-all-star-slugger-rafael-devers-giants

Wow! Devers is a huge talent. Seems like San Fran got him for a reasonable return!

[Diamond_Dog]

1. Wow! I'll bet Sox fans are stunned!

[Bristlecone]

2. SF has to pay his remaining 331 million contract.

They asked him to play 1st after they got Alex Bregman and he refused. So he has been DH’ing. Too much money for a DH, regardless of his HRs and RBIs

[True Dough]

5. And for as good as he offensively,

he's actually a liability defensively at 3rd base. Not a good fielder at all.

[Bristlecone]

10. Yeah, it's like the reverse Sandoval trade

Big Panda 2.0

[Brother Buzz]

3. I'd love to be a fly on the wall when Bob Melvin and Buster Posey get together

The team only learned of the trade twenty minutes before today’s game.

Kind of a bummer Wilmer Flores playing second fiddle to Rafael Devers. I suspect Wilmer will become a pinch hitter extraordinaire and get in a lot of playtime on the field

[chicoescuela]

4. Hoping this will jumpstart their offense. Giants seem to

have a lot of pitching but few little long ball threats.
Hope this works for my Gigantes

[everyonematters]

6. I'm a Redsox fan. I am ok with it if it gets them some more pitching.

They must believe in the new talents of Mayer, Anthony and Cambell.

[Auggie]

7. Necessary move ...

mid June, and they're competing for first place with the Dodgers.

[True Dough]

8. Are you surprised by how they're neck and neck, Auggie?

I guess the Dodgers' numerous injuries, particularly to their pitching staff, helps explain it. The Giants are a very good team, but these Dodgers were supposed to be an exceptional squad.

[Auggie]

11. Yes

"Baseball's weird" -- Buster Posey

Posey set the tone in Spring Training: defense, pitching and smart baseball. Overlooked: the intangibles. They are finding ways to win.

This trade is a little reminiscent of the Zach Wheeler for Carlos Beltran trade in 2011. Not quite an apples-to-apples comparison since Beltran was essentially a rental and Kyle Harrison might not quite match the potential of Wheeler. Beltran almost immediately landed on the I.L. That was disaster.

I do have concerns losing Harrison. And can Devers accept giving up third base to Chapman's better glove? He had problems with that in Boston.

[True Dough]

12. Big Papi's take on Devers:

David Ortiz says Rafael Devers' ego was what ruined his relationship with the Red Sox.

"Players need to take this as an example, nobody is indispensible... You need to be smart and understand the situation. Your worst enemy is your own ego."

Link to tweet

[Auggie]

13. Interesting. Thanks for sharing.

I believe Posey and Melvin have had -- or will have -- a talk with Devers