Rafael Devers passes from Boston to San Francisco in surprising change
The Dominican Rafael Devers is a new San Francisco Giants player after unexpected change with Boston Red Sox, sources report to AM850.
San Francisco Giants They acquired the All-Star Rafael Devers by Boston Red Sox In a surprising acquisition on Sunday night.
The giants sent the operator Jordan Hicks, 23 -year -old left Kyle Harrisonto the gardener prospect James Tibbs and another prospect, sources informed Jeff Passan de AM850.
The devers agent, Nelson Montes de Oca, confirmed the acquisition of the Red Sox star by the giants.
Devers, 28, is in the second season of a contract of 10 years and $ 313.5 million who signed to stay in Boston in January 2023. The red socks will not send money to cover the remaining $ 250 million of the Devers contract, the sources reported.
The relationship of Devers, three times All-Star, with the team suffered a hard blow this spring after, according to reports, the former third-starting base was surprised by a designated batter change.
When Triston Casas It was out of action for a knee injury that ended the season, the red socks They approached Devers to occupy the first base. He refused and suggested that the directive “I should do your job ” and look for another player.
A day after the comments of Devers to the media about playing on the first base, the owner of the Red Sox, John Henry, the president of the team, Sam Kennedy, and the baseball director, Craig Breslow, traveled to Kansas City to meet with Devers and manager Alex Cora.
Hicks and Harrison contribute more depth to a team of the red socks with a shortage of pitchers, while Devers provides a great impulse to the offensive of the giants, which is in crisis.
Devers, one of the most feared baseball batters, bats.
The undefeated owners (of all industries, of all time) follow: Rafael Devers changed to San Francisco.
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He first signed with Boston as an international free agent in August 2013. He was 20 when he debuted in the Major Leagues with the Red Sox on July 25, 2017.
He helped the Red Sox to win the 2018 World Series and led the team in ranges promoted for five consecutive seasons, from 2020 to 2024. It has been among the top 20 in the vote for the most valuable player in the American League five times.
Devers is not the first All-Star of the Red Sox to be exchanged: the team sent to Mookie Betts To the Dodgers of Los Angeles before the 2020 season, just one year after he won the most valuable player in the American League and took Boston to a franchise record of 108 wins and his fourth title of the World Series since 2004.
The Associated Press contributed to this report.
