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By most measures, the Rafael Devers commerce occurred all of the sudden. It got here with out advance discover of his availability, and the Pink Sox reportedly weren’t procuring him round. Instantly, it drew comparisons to the Luka Dončić-Anthony Davis commerce within the NBA, as a result of rarely in our scoops-driven media panorama, the place even the tiniest rumor is handled as forex, does a transaction involving a famous person catch us without warning.
And but, now that the shock has worn off, buying and selling Devers seems like a logical end result to the saga that started in March, when the Pink Sox signed Alex Bregman to play third base with out giving the incumbent a heads up. The main points of the following rift have been lined at nice size, at FanGraphs and elsewhere, so I received’t go into them right here. Quite a lot of the reporting because the commerce has described the scenario in Boston as untenable, and the harm performed to the connection between Devers and the workforce as irreparable. However based mostly on how badly the Pink Sox botched their preliminary response to the battle, after which stored bungling their subsequent makes an attempt at reconciliation, from my perspective, it looks as if they didn’t make repairing it a lot of a precedence.
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