Rafael Devers was in Boston's red socks between 2017 and 2025.
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Cases such as the one between the organization of the Red Boston and the outstanding Dominican player, Rafael Devers. And everything exploded when nobody saw him coming. There were many rumors prior to the facts, but there was hope that the agreement between the parties would arrive sooner rather than later, a fact that finally did not happen.
Devers was with his 'hot' bat, with the complete circuit plank that had given an offer from the dominant left -handed, Max Fried, of the New York Yankees, in the fifth entrance, with whose race, the red socks secured the victory in the game and the 'sweep' in the series against their eternal rivals, on the night of last Sunday, by board of 2 races at 0.
The Dominican then reached 215 home runs and exactly 500 extrabases; 696 towed races, 663 scored and an average offensive of 279, by 1,136 hits connected in 4,074 spin to bat, in 1,053 games played with Boston, between July 25, 2017 and this June 15, 2025, when it was notified that it ceased to belong to the organization and that its new team was waiting for it: the Giants of San Francisco.
The last drop
The drop that overflowed the cup went unnoticed in almost all media and especially by the colleagues who cover the red socks. When on May 2, Triston Casas, at the time, the first base of the novena, he suffered the tear of one of his tendons of the left knee and was left out of the current season, the technicians and the main managers of Boston insisted the team's need to have him in the defense of the first cushion.
The Dominican, with a valuable 10 -year contract of US $ 313.5 million, starting in 2024, refused to play in the field as the first base. That is, for us, the last drop that was needed to spill the cup. And the organization decided that Devers could not continue with the red socks.
What many wonder, with some concern, is why he did not listen to the advice of the experienced and today a member of the Hall of Fame, the Dominican, David 'Big Papi' Ortiz, a man who has knowledge of the entrails of the Red Sox, and who, in the words of many of his friends, always told him that in baseball, sometimes one does not like certain things, but you have to accept them.
The inconveniences
It all began with the signing of the free agent, the renowned Alex Bregman, in February of this year, by the Red Sox and the position adopted by Devers, who did not accept to lose ownership, overnight, as the third base of the novena, which came to occupy the new player.
The alternative for the Dominican was to defend the first cushion, which was not to his liking, or stay, as he had to do it, occupying the offensive position of designated batter. In those comings and goings there were more inconveniences that came to overflow the cup, deciding the novena to get rid of one of the pillars of the team, to “defend integrity and sports discipline.”
It would be enough to remember, with recent events of the modern baseball era and of this century, two events that also created controversy between fans, players and the teams to which they belonged.
No one can forget that when Alex Rodríguez was hired by the Yankees, in 2003, he emerged with more speculation than by reality, that he would move to the titular torpedo, Derek Jeter, and it was not so.
Alex agreed to change position. Stop being a field, who had been with the Seattle sailors and Texas vigilantes, in all their brilliant career, and seize the third pad. Jeter stayed in his position and Alex went to the 'hot corner'.
And this other. We must all remember that Nomar García-Parra was the titular torpedo of the Red Sox when the 2004 season began. But Boston, in the middle of the campaign, acquired the services of the Colombian, Orlando Cabrera, to get to occupy the field-corto.
Controversial, protests, dimes and diretes, and for dessert, the red socks hit, silently leaving the contradictors of the decision. Nomar was transferred to the Chicago puppies. The Colombian Cabrera was a vital and fundamental piece for the red socks to break the 'spell' or the 'curse' of the 'Bambino' Babe Ruth – especially whose 'curse' there was never any evidence -, to win the World Series of that 2004, after 86 years of 'fasting' in the autumn appointment.
What is your Walk-Off Home Run by Orlando Cabrera?
RT with Boston in 2004.
❤️ with Cincinnati in 2010.Did you know that Orlando had five home runs to leave the rival on the ground:
Montreal 2001 y 2004
Boston 2004
La Angels 2005
Cincinnati 2010#Ploteroscolombia🇨🇴 pic.twitter.com/n1GYaXrKFx– Colombian players ⚾️🇨🇴 (@peloteroscol) April 19, 2020
As Terry Francona once said, the Red Sox strategist for those years, 'in baseball we always seek to win, and when the pieces fit into the game format that one wants to apply, there is no different way than imposing it.'
The 'pati-reds' with Terry and Orlando, but also with the Dominicans, the star Pedro Martínez, Manny Ramírez, David Ortiz; Curt Schilling, Johnny Damon, Derek Lowe, Jason Varitek, to barely mention a few, won the World Series.
The great thing is that when the Red Sox were down in the final for the title of the American League against the New York Yankees, a base theft, made by Dave Roberts, today foreman of the Dodgers of Los Angeles, in the fourth game of that final, opened the path that allowed Boston to win the 4 games followed by the crown of the circuit, but also “swept” the cardinals of San Luis, Champions of the National League, in the Grand Final for the Crown of the October Classic.
It was a stellar moment. To the red socks everything went out to ask for mouth. Everything fit into the pieces of the game that was needed to succeed after 86 years without winning the World Series. They reached the postseason with the 'wild card' ticket, and all the honors of October were taken.
A sinsabor
At the time of Nona, it must be said that a good number of colleagues, especially Dominicans; Of fans who love the shirt of the Red Sox, of people who are emotionally linked to the novena, do not agree with the way the Dominican Devers of the Boston franchise came out. And in that aspect, it must be said, that the team did not handle with tact, prudence and perhaps, a little respect for the player, communication to make him known that he was left out of the organization.
