Jones & Keefe: Has Rafael Devers figured it out? Rob Bradford joins the show

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00:00Red Sox feels like have a little bit of momentum. How badly did they need those two games in Baltimore?

00:05I don't want to overdramatize it, but it was looking ugly there before the last couple games. Yeah

00:10Well, I always said you don't run isolations for outfielders

00:12But you almost do when you need the guy like Raphael Devers like when it comes to baseball

00:18There are certain things that you just need you need a guy like Garrett crochet to be there you go

00:24There's an ace you want you have a losing streak

00:26I am gonna stop that right now Raphael Devers the middle-of-the-order guy where everyone's stressing out about when he's gonna get up to the

00:34Plate wherever you want is when he gets to the plate, you know, he's gonna get the job done

00:38This is why these guys are paid all that money

00:40And when Raphael Devers has this historic run of over 19 and 15 strikeouts

00:46Holy mackerel, like how is this happening? And by the way, that was a big reason

00:51Not only him Cassius and Bregman, but yeah to answer your question getting those guys going that's why they're winning

00:57It's been a wild month for Devers

00:59Specifically, I mean we talked about the all his comments throughout spring that you were there for and then the historically bad start

01:05Two games where he's hit the ball forward gotten some hits

01:08Does that kind of fix everything or is there still something there?

01:10You say hit the ball forward because they were talking about that

01:13He said it in one of the games that I've hit the ball forward. Yeah, one of his answers. Yeah

01:17I

01:18Yeah, I think that it the thing about the Devers situation was it wasn't just one of the best hitters in baseball

01:25Was going over 19 with 15 strikeouts you had these and we went through this these 15 different reasons

01:31Why it could happen and I remember talking to you guys about this, you know, I lose track it whatever it was

01:37Was it Texas?

01:40But but but we're saying well what what happens if he gets off to a bad start all this stuff that you're asking me about

01:46Being out of shape, you know worrying about DH how you handle the DH all of this is gonna surface and sure enough

01:54That's what we were doing. We're trying to figure out how is this happening?

01:57And why didn't he play in spring training games like all of this was surfaced

02:02But hey, you know what a week in the season the great game of baseball always rides itself