Pedro Martínez criticizes what situation between Devers and Red Sox became so public

The member of the Hall of Fame believes that the problems between the player and the team had to handle the internal, involving other great players of the franchise.

For the legendary Pedro Martínezmember of the champion team of Boston Red Sox from 2004 and the second Dominican to reach the Cooperstown Hall of Famethe complicated situation that the team lived with Rafael Devers and that culminated with the change of the player towards San Francisco Giants It is summarized in poor communication between the parties.

MARTÍNEZ It was frontal to indicate that he did not like the whole matter to be handled in such a public way and insisted that if the team had involved other veterans to whom the player respects, the communication would have been much more fluid, avoiding having to change it.

“I have not talked too much about the subject, because I really did not participate much in this situation. I must tell you that I think we made an error as an organization by allowing him to get out of hand (The situation with Devers) ”, began by saying MARTÍNEZ During his participation in B/R Walkoff Live with Xavier Scruggs.

“The most important thing about what I have realized is that the Red Sox had a great opportunity to maintain everything, including the attitude of Devers, internally, among the players, within the clubhouse, with baseball people (of the team). The Red Sox have many people. If you called a (Dustin) Pedroia, a (Jason) Varitek, David (Ortiz) Oa me to mediate the situation, I am very sure that we would have convinced Devers to do everything that the Red Sox wanted me to do“He added MARTÍNEZ.

“The problem is that when you do not involve your baseball people in such situations, it is difficult to predict how the player will react. Devers is a boy who does not speak much in Spanish, English or in any other language. You need to meet Devers to tell him what to do and I think Alex (CORA) And the Red Sox dropped the ball in this situation. Alex is someone with whom I think he had confidence, but the way everything was explained, was not well understood with devers“Added”The big one”

“Things got out of control, arrived in the media and I think it became a ugly stage for both parties, but I am happy that Boston got good talent for him and that Devers will be happy in San Francisco, where baseball people, such as Buster Posey, will be close to Devers and can define what to do with him”He closed saying MARTÍNEZ.

The former player’s statements join that of other colleagues as Manny Ramírez and David Ortizwho have also given their opinion about how the career of Devers With Boston.