The San Francisco Giants are buying All-Star slugger Rafael Devers from the Boston Pink Sox, sources confirmed to ESPN’s Jeff Passan on Sunday night.
The Giants are sending starter Jordan Hicks and 23-year-old lefty Kyle Harrison, amongst others, to Boston in change, sources mentioned.
Boston Pink Sox’s Rafael Devers follows by means of on successful in opposition to the Baltimore Orioles through the first baseball recreation of a doubleheader Friday, Might 23, 2025, in Boston.
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Devers, 28, is in simply the second season of a 10-year, $313.5 million contract he signed to remain in Boston in January 2023, nonetheless his relationship with the staff suffered a major blow after the star third baseman was reportedly blindsided by a transfer to designated hitter within the spring.
Tensions flared once more final month after Devers refused a proposal from the staff to maneuver him to first base after beginning first baseman Triston Casas was dominated out for the season with a knee harm.
It reached some extent the place Pink Sox proprietor John Henry met with the disgruntled star, making a uncommon journey to satisfy the staff on the highway and clean issues over after Devers’ pointed feedback concerning the request to change positions once more.
Hicks and Harrison give a pitching-starved Pink Sox staff extra depth on their employees whereas Devers gives an enormous enhance to a middling Giants offense.
Devers has greater than 200 profession dwelling runs to his title and has a .894 OPS for Boston this season.
The deal was first reported by Fansided.
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