Rafael -Devers shoot down to 1B to Triston Casas injury, places in the Front Office of the Red Sox

Rafael Devers entered the season under a controversy cloud because his disinterest moved from the third basis to the defined bat. Now he lures back in another step.

The long-time third of Baseman was a full-time hitter this season after the Boston Red Sox signed another all-star in the position, Alex Bregman in the off-season. However, the first basic position is now far open after Triston Casas' ended the end of the season.

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Some thought would be a natural solution, since the third basemen often appear in the deep cards of the first basis, but the 28-year-old shot the idea and then some on Thursday.

Through an interpreter, he told reporters that the front office had approached him because of the move, and his answer was a fixed “no” about Christopher Smith of Masslive:

“They had a conversation with me,” said Devers by the translator Daveeson Perez. “I don't think I personally are the best decision after you have asked me to play a different position and I only have two months in which I played this position.

“Let me suddenly try to play another position – so it doesn't seem to be a good decision.”

This reaction alone would have been one of the hardest criticisms that a player has founded in his own front office in recent years, but the devers continued. He questioned the idea of ​​asking him at all and implied that he is still not satisfied with the DH parade:

“I know I'm a ball player, but at the same time you can't expect me to play every single position out there. In spring training you spoke to me and basically told me that I should put my glove away – that I would not play any other position, except I am currently asking myself to be asked to play a different position.”

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He basically told the front office that it is her job to find out the first basis, not his: not his:

“Now I think that you can essentially do your work and come onto the market and look for another player [to play first base]. I am not sure why you want me to be between the way you have now. “

He also said he thinks they are just not true:

“Yes. I don't think they stay true to their word. They told me that I would play this position, i.e. and now they go back. So yes, I don't think they will stay loyal to their word.”

Finally, he opened the decisions of the Red Sox -Chief Baseball Officers Craig Wroclow:

“Here in the clubhouse is the relationship that I have with my teammates,” said Devers. “I don't understand some of the decisions that the GM makes. Next, someone is injured in the outer field and they want me to play in the outer field. I think I know the kind of player I am. And yes, that's exactly where I stand.”

At that time we will remind you that you are devers in the second year of a 10-year contract with $ 313.5 million with the Red Sox, and his relationship with the team's front office seems to be on rope. Red Sox manager Alex Cora announced at the beginning of this week that he hesitated to ask devers before warming up the idea, and the meeting was clearly not going well.

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At the beginning of the season, Devers also made headlines by being hit in his first 19 bats with 15 strikeouts, even though he has statistically recovered since then.

When he entered on Thursday, he lowered .246/.370/.430 with five Homers, 23 RBI and an OPS+ of 125, which means that it was 30% better than MLB average if he was adjusted for park. At 46 he took second place in the Al strikes, but also leads the league in walks with 28.

Devers is clearly obliged to be a third Baseman and is ready to wait Bregman, who has an opt-out after 2025 and 2026 to get the position back. However, he does not find friends by refusing to play in defense elsewhere, especially in view of the fact that 31 different players played the third and the first basis this season this season.

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In the meantime, the Red Sox with Casas on the first basis used the Utility men Romy González and Abraham Toro.

Further complicated of devers' love for the third basis is that the statistics simply do not believe that it is very good in it and that he probably doesn't get better with age. With defensive runs that were saved, Devers was a negative negative negative every season as third as third as in 2021. A total of 61 additional runs have been permitted at the hot corner since his debut in 2017.

A change to the first could be very good in the next few years, whether he likes it or not.