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00:11Okay, so when Devers got traded to the San Francisco Giants, and that was obviously Raphael Devers that we just
00:16played with the Giants,
00:17talking about his move to first base, the desire to get better.
00:21He's obviously shown a willingness to play first base and work at it, at least, you know, verbally.
00:26Obviously, in San Francisco, something he did not and would not do here.
00:32Murray, at the time, there was a great deal of discussion about whether the Red Sox were better off without
00:39Devers.
00:39I know Felger believed that, that the team chemistry immediately got better by getting rid of Devers.
00:44I would tell you that the thing that, to me, really allowed them to get away with it, at least
00:49on the field,
00:50was that Roman Anthony immediately came in and played like Devers,
00:55so that it wasn't necessarily getting rid of Devers as much as it was adding Anthony,
01:00whom they did not have on the roster at the start of the year.
01:03But whatever.
01:04There was a discussion about it.
01:07Looking back on it now, that Bregman is gone,
01:13do you look at the Devers' story any differently?
01:16Do you reassess it and say, you know what?
01:20They effed this up.
01:22Yeah.
01:22Look at how happy he is with the Giants.
01:24Or do you think Devers was just a colossal pain in the ass and it's a matter of time
01:29before he becomes a divisive force with the Giants?
01:32He was a pain in the ass.
01:33He wasn't a clubhouse, true clubhouse issue.
01:37He's just what happens with a lot of star players in professional sports.
01:41They're mercurial and a bit of a pain in the ass,
01:43and sometimes you have to handle them with kid gloves.
01:46And instead, they alienated him, and they signed Bregman,
01:50and now he's gone, and Devers is gone,
01:52and they could use a bat and they don't have one.
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