One day after a stunning trade that sent star slugger Rafael Devers to the San Francisco Giants in exchange for four players, Red Sox officials discussed the deal.
Chief baseball officer Craig Breslow and president/CEO Sam Kennedy explained the trade as a product of the team’s failure to see eye-to-eye with Devers, implicitly suggesting his refusal to play first base after a season-ending injury to Triston Casas in early May fractured his relationship with the organization.
“In terms of what was missing, it just was that alignment in terms of what we felt we needed from him that would be in the absolute best interest of the ballclub. That’s a non-starter for us. We have to have that. We couldn’t get there,” said Kennedy. “We obviously, over the last week or so, reached an inflection point … and we came to the very difficult decision to make a deal that we think serves the best interests of the Boston Red Sox in the short term and in the long term.”
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