Being on a brand new workforce with a contemporary begin appears to have sparked a serious change in angle for All-Star slugger Rafael Devers.
After spending a lot of the 2025 season in a public battle with the Boston Purple Sox over what place he could be enjoying, Devers is taking a completely new mindset after being traded to the San Francisco Giants and is prepared to play no matter place is requested of him.
The problems between the Purple Sox and Devers started initially of the season when the workforce signed Alex Bregman to play third base, pushing Devers off of his most well-liked place and into a chosen hitter position. Issues solely acquired worse when the Purple Sox requested him to play first base attributable to mounting damage points on the place.
Devers was not shy about sharing his displeasure with each requests.
So why the sudden change in mindset now that he is with the Giants? Nicely, it might be any variety of eventualities.
Getting traded can actually humble a participant and alter their outlook or strategy.
However the extra probably state of affairs may merely be one in every of communication and respect. As in, maybe the Giants have been extra upfront with Devers and extra respectful of their strategy with him than the Purple Sox have been.
Maybe the issue wasn’t essentially Devers not desirous to play a unique place, however fairly the best way the Purple Sox entrance workplace and training employees approached the scenario and dealt with the requests.
Regardless of the explanation, it is a scenario that most likely has Purple Sox followers much more angered over the commerce than they already have been. And now the Purple Sox are ready the place their lineup is considerably weaker than it was every week in the past, whereas one other franchise cornerstone has been traded away for pennies on the greenback.
None of it paints the Purple Sox in a very optimistic mild in the intervening time.
