Red Sox are the only ones responsible for the situation with Rafael Devers

The questionable decisions that the team has made in recent years have placed them in the complicated crossroads in which they meet the arrival of Alex Bregman.

Boston Red Sox You still have no answer to the most important question of the beginning of spring training: Where will Rafael Devers play?

In conversation with Enrique Rojas for AM850the leader Alex Cora He gave a much better thought response about the situation of the third base, than the one that gave the day when Rafael Deversrepetitively said that it is a third base and that it will play there because that is its position.

“Here we have not made a decision as to who is going to play where. Here we talk about flexibility in the roster, versatility in the roster and there is a lot of competition here in the training fields (…) is very early in the training field“, said CORA to Reda very different response to “Here are new people who make decisions”, When asked about the statements of Devers And the promise that, according to the player, made the team to keep him in third base for a long time.

However, the problem of Red Sox With this crossroads in which they are now before the arrival of Alex Bregman and the position of Devershe was not born with the signing of the free agent, but has been brewing for a long time, after the questionable decisions that the organization has made with respect to its staff.

Change to Mookie Bettsafter not reaching an extension agreement that was satisfactory to the team, letting go to a generational talent that is putting together a case to become Cooperstown Hall of Fameas well as let go to Xander Bogaerts In free agency, they were the main cause of a rain of bad advertising against Red Sox. This situation cornered them and was the main reason why an agreement of more than 300 million dollars was given to Rafael Devers And he was put on his shoulders to be the face of the franchise.

It is correct to highlight that Devers Each penny deserves that he will receive for its contractual extension. It is one of the best batters in the MLBbut it is no less true that the decision to give it a contractual extension with these characteristics was taken as a result of internal despair, as a way of trying to calm a very vocal and extremely disappointed fanatic with the whole.

The problem arises when the player is made promises that can not be fulfilled such as keeping it for a long time in the prelude. The bad defense of Devers It is something we are seeing since its first year in Major Leagues. To this, it is added that it is placed in a leader position to someone who does not have that profile and that obviously feels uncomfortable every time it is mentioned that it is the face of the franchise, with limitations in the language and a low behavior profile. As the saying says: “You can’t ask for pears to the elm”

To all this, the ingredient is added that, also according to the player, the first time the conversation about moving it is presented, it was days before the training was presented, when the team was related to obtaining Alex Bregman Since December. Not only this, the team was associated as the main candidate to acquire Nolan Arenado instead from St. Louis Cardinals during a good section of the low season.

Therefore it makes so much noise that at least one occasion the conversation has not been presented to Devers On that in case of acquiring one of those two players, as ended up, there were possibilities that he was no longer the third base. Being questioned directly by Red In this regard, the response of Alex Cora It seems to indicate that that conversation was never given.

Alex Bregman, Boston Red Sox. pic.twitter.com/ylsxche8g

– Red Sox (@redsox) February 16, 2025

“The general plan that we communicate is that we are doing our best to improve the team. There were many free agents, as we know, but Alex Bregman was there until the last and for joy of the team, we got it“, said CORA before the question of whether they had talked about Devers Before the start of training that could be moved to improve defense.

Let’s not get confused, the arrival of Alex Bregman to Boston It is probably one of the best decisions that the team has made in recent years and makes them much better in all aspects of what they would be without it, but it is no less true that given the possibility of acquiring it, the team had to have a previous and more frontal communication with Deversthe leader who created a few years ago to quiet fans.

If there is a single person in charge of the tumultuous pre -season start that has had Bostonyou don’t have to look far away, they are their own Red Sox.