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Here we are 2 days after Rafael Devers, one of the best hitters in baseball, is traded away from the Boston Red Sox’s. I can honestly say it doesn’t feel any better, I would actually say it feels worse at this point. And there is only one man to blame for this. “President of Baseball Operations” Craig Breslow. For a man who went to an Ivy League school and won a World Series he has no clue what in Gods green earth he is doing running a baseball team. He had this whole plan that really did look good before spring training. Bring in Crochet, Chapman, and Bregman. When you look at that it lines up pretty well for Bregman to step in at second a spot that was open and Raffy stays at third. You could also have the possibility of Bregman at third and Raffy at DH. There was only one issue with this whole plan and that is where it all started to tumble down hill for our young Raffy Devers. Breslow being the nerd he is decided, how about we don’t tell our $300 million player what we are doing and just hope he doesn’t care! WHAT A PLAN CRAIG. As we all know Devers gets pissed finally agrees to DH and the relationship beings to get worse from there. Eventually leading to Devers getting traded. You can throw all the reasons at me why getting rid of him may be good but you all sound stupid (sorry not sorry). Players like Devers don’t grow on trees and you let another one go. The Mookie Betts trade really does hurt a lot but there was a great chance he was never resigning here and you lose him for nothing. I personally would have thrown a blank check and said take whatever gets you to stay but that’s history now. Devers on the other hand is in his prime, has won World Series before, and was locked up for another 8 years. I would love to blame little rat John Henry but he doesn’t get all the blame here. He is extremely happy to see that money off the books and most likely put back into his shit soccer team but that’s another conversation. 99% of the blame goes to Breslow for being the worst President in baseball history. I would have fired his ass and put him in the cab to a bus station if it would have made Raffy a happy man. Now for the next however many years we get to watch Devers put balls into the cove while we hope and wait prospects turn into super stars like him.