“There was no mandate,” said the baseball officer of the Red Sox, Craig Breslow, or the San Francisco giants assuming the entire remuneration cost of the Rafael Devers franchise record contract. “The mandate is to gather the best team as possible.
The way in which the president of Breslow and the Red Sox, Sam Kennedy, spoke at a zoom press conference of almost 45 minutes before Monday’s game in Seattle, the impressive exchange of Sunday was what was the best thing for the team. It is not an irreparable breakdown of the relationship between a historical franchise and its superstar, or the public rebuke of the ORS or their employers, or trying to throw more guaranteed salary than the red socks had committed to any player.
“It was an exchange of baseball,” Kennedy said, “because we did what we felt was in the best interest of the red socks inside and outside the field to win championships … it was a baseball exchange, no doubt.”
Devers, in his alleged refusal to play a position again, after the Red Sox relegated Heter to the batter designated in spring training, apparently was the Logjam preventing the youth movement of the club from take off, in terms of both aspects in the field.
“We are really excited about the injection of youth and the attitude of the first team of that youth that enters the organization and culture that is being built in this club,” Kennedy said.
“We would not have made this exchange if we thought it was better for the organization, and the vision and beliefs and culture we are trying to create,” Breslow said. “I Think Culture is always Important, But i Think it’s magnified When You have Young Players Who Are Coming To The Big Leagues and Trying To Accllimate Theselves to This Lifestyle, Expectations, Demands, and to convert -to -to -bete -to -to -bete -to -to -bete -to -bete -to -bete -to -bete -to -to -be -be -to -live Willing to do anything that is needed to win as quickly as possible.
“And we are very deliberate about the environment that we are creating to support these types and make sure that the message is the correct type of messages so that three, four, in five years, when there is another wave of the city of the reality of Ally Lagy Sete. And it will be easy to pass.”
Both Kennedy and Breslow refused to elaborate what, specifically, made Devers no longer fit into their ideal baseball environment. On the other hand, as the leadership of the Red Sox has done for most of the last half decade, they tried to redirect the focus towards the future.
“This was not a decision that was made light or that made doubts, you know, you do not exchange Raffy Devers simply because you have a player who comes out of the (joke list) and you need to make a movement,” Breslow said. “But we are aware to balance what we believe is this child, a really exciting young nucleus, with the opportunity to play in the big leagues, and there were a series of roads that we feel we could explore to get more cohesive and more.” ”
When he was pressed on the fact that the exchange came at a time when the red socks have played their best and most consistent baseball of the season, and hours after completing a scanning of the Yankees in which Devers Janó for their 500º extra-base blow, “the extra base of the timer”, the extra base of the timer, “Timetototow,” Timorotow, “Time” “.”
In the short term, he explained that without devers, the red socks can rotate the players through the DH point. They suggested that they could use the new financial flexibility to update the initial rotation, the bullpen or the first base before the summer trade deadline, pointing out that Triston Casas’s return is far away.
For now, he thought, the offensive of the Red Sox will undoubtedly less productive without the man who, until Sunday, was the best batter designated in the American League. That is the sacrifice that the main office is willing to do for the future.
“When you move a Raffy caliber player, when you get that bat of the alignment, how could I sit here and say that we are a better team? And I recognize that on paper, we will not have the one but we did it,” Game Saint played on paper.
“And so, I think that when you give flexibility, the ability to give some of the young players run, the opportunity to replace some of the resources and fill some in the list as soon as this year is approaching the brand line so that these young players prosper, so I think that is a real possibility that at the end of the season, we are looking back and won more games than they would have done it would have done it otherwise.”