Red Sox exec says he believes team could win 'more games' without Rafael Devers

The Boston Red Sox appeared to crook their play astir by sweeping the New York Yankees implicit the play - and past they traded distant their franchise player.

Shortly aft the Sox completed the three-game beatdown of the Bombers, they sent Rafael Devers, who homered connected Sunday implicit the Green Monster, to the San Francisco Giants.

The penning had been connected the partition for immoderate clip aft the Sox signed 3rd baseman Alex Bregman, and eventually, Devers refused to play archetypal base. Devers has lone been a designated hitter each season.

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Boston Red Sox's Rafael Devers, #11, flips his bat aft hitting a location tally against the Houston Astros during the sixth inning of a shot crippled connected Tuesday, Aug. 2, 2022 successful Houston. (AP Photo/David J. Phillip)

"In the end, I deliberation it's beauteous wide that we couldn't find alignment with Raffy," Red Sox President and CEO Sam Kennedy told reporters connected Monday, via MLB.com. "We each worked astatine it implicit the past respective months, going backmost to the offseason, starting with [manager] Alex Cora and [chief shot officer] Craig [Brewslow] and the staff, and past up to me, and each the mode up to [owner] John Henry.

"We worked astatine it. We had a antithetic imaginativeness for him going guardant than helium had, and we couldn't get there. We couldn't find alignment, and we reached that inflection constituent and made the determination to marque a large move."

Despite losing, by far, their champion bat, Breslow, a pitcher for 13 MLB seasons, said that the determination is "in nary mode signifying a waving of the achromatic emblem connected 2025."

In fact, Breslow really believes that the commercialized volition effect successful a amended merchandise successful the contiguous future. "I bash deliberation there's a existent accidental that astatine the extremity of the season," Breslow said, "we're looking back, and we've won much games than we different would have." 

For what it is worth, the Sox bushed the Seattle Mariners, 2-0, connected Monday nighttime successful their archetypal crippled of the post-Devers era.

Boston Red Sox's Rafael Devers, #11, reacts connected his mode to archetypal basal aft getting deed by a transportation during the sixth inning of a shot crippled against the New York Yankees connected Sunday, June 8, 2025 successful New York. (AP Photo/Noah K. Murray)

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Devers was the past antheral lasting of the 2018 World Series champion Sox inactive successful Boston - but now, each $250 cardinal remaining connected his woody is present San Francisco's responsibility. Breslow insisted the woody was not an effort to chopped payroll — similar the deals for Mookie Betts, who went connected to triumph 2 World Series successful Los Angeles, oregon Chris Sale, who won the NL Cy Young Award successful his archetypal play with the Braves.

However, with tons of currency present disposable - and a squad that is close successful the postseason race, Breslow said the beforehand bureau volition proceed to look for ways to amended the team, with a middle-of-the-lineup hitter a caller need.

"For immoderate reason, this squad (is) an illustration wherever the full was not greater than the sum of the parts," helium said. "And being large teammates and sacrificing and stepping up for each different and embodying this shared vision, we judge that those are principles that we request to beryllium faithful to.

Rafael Devers, #11 of the Boston Red Sox, reacts earlier a Spring Training Grapefruit League crippled against the Tampa Bay Rays connected Feb. 26, 2023 astatine jetBlue Park astatine Fenway South successful Fort Myers, Florida. (Billie Weiss/Boston Red Sox/Getty Images)

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"And so, astatine the extremity of the season, I deliberation we could look backmost and accidental we’ve won much games than we different would have, due to the fact that of the mode that this roster is present capable to travel together."

The Associated Press contributed to this report.

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