As a life-long Sox fan, I join everyone’s astonishment that
the Sox would trade Devers, especially at this point in the
season. But it sort of makes sense for Boston.
The Sox get to move a disgruntled super-star out of the lock-
er room. They break a log jamb of position players and add
depth to a pitching staff desperately in need of quality arms.
As has been pointed out by another source, Boston sells a
mediocre 2025 season for a better chance of success in 2026 -
2032.
With or without Devers, the Sox weren’t going anywhere this
season. I would still be looking for a high-value starter
(who isn’t?). But I like that the front office had the stones
to pull the trigger on this deal. In the longer term, the Sox
are better. In the immediate term, the Giants come away looking
like they stole Boston’s lunch money.
We’ll see.
They got a couple of good and young pitchers.
They didn’t do bad.
This was a classic win win deal.
Congrats to both sides.
As I said, it was ironically made on the date that used to be the trade deadline when many of us were growing up. (They moved it to July 31 in 1986.)
I think you may be right. Devers was kind of a whiner.