The Boston Red Sox made the shocking, hard-to-understand, unpopular — there’s really no shortage of words — decision to trade Rafael Devers on Sunday.
Why?
ESPN’s Buster Olney attempted to answer that question live on Sunday Night Baseball, giving insight based off what he heard during a matchup between the slugger’s new team, the San Francisco Giants, and the Los Angeles Dodgers.
“(Devers) had reached an impasse with the Red Sox,” Olney claimed, as transcribed by WEEI’s Tom Carroll. “Getting text messages from executives, other teams have been talking with the Red Sox. They basically are saying that after Devers did not respond following John Henry getting on a plane and going out to Kansas City, and he didn’t take ground balls after that, the perception of other teams was, ‘Yeah, he was gone.’ Red Sox were going to move him when he didn’t respond to the owner who was paying him that contract.”
Will that make fans feel any better in and around Jersey Street? No, but at least its something.
The Red Sox won’t get away from this storyline anytime soon, as their scheduled to face the now-former face of their franchise next weekend at Oracle Park.
