The Boston Crimson Sox nonetheless can not seem to determine the place they need Rafael Devers to play this season.
After they signed Alex Bregman in free company, they moved Devers from third base to designated hitter. Then, when Triston Casas injured the patellar tendon in his left knee, Boston requested the 28-year-old star to mull over a place change once more. Unsurprisingly, he wasn’t pleased about that.
“I do know I am a ballplayer, however on the similar time, they can not anticipate me to play each single place on the market,” Devers stated Thursday, per Christopher Smith of MassLive.com. “In spring coaching, they talked to me and principally instructed me to place away my glove — that I wasn’t going to play another place however DH. So proper now I simply really feel prefer it’s not simply an applicable determination by them to ask me to play one other place.”
Who might blame Devers for not wanting to change positions once more, particularly when he is getting the dangle of DH after a tumultuous begin?
On Sunday, in a street recreation in opposition to the Kansas Metropolis Royals. Devers performed at DH. He blasted a 440-foot two-run dwelling run into middle discipline within the prime of the sixth inning. (Left fielder Jarren Duran scored.)
