Pitcher Sean Hjelle was just told to be ready to go for first pitch on Sunday. It was an unusual request for a few reasons, given that Hjelle’s a reliever, it was roughly 30 minutes before gametime, a

Boone drops perfect reaction after Devers trade and Yankees fans relate originally appeared on Athlon Sports. When ESPN analyst Eduardo Perez texted his old friend Aaron Boone to tell him that Boston Red Sox slugger Rafael Devers had been traded to the San Francisco Giants, he had to laugh at the response. .

The San Francisco Giants stunning trade for Boston Red Sox slugger Rafael Devers received a mixed reaction from some MLB executives and scouts.

As the news of Boston’s trade of Rafael Devers to San Francisco began to spread Sunday night, executives around the league had reactions ranging from shock to confusion. “Is this trade real?” one American League executive said shortly after the news broke,

Willy Adames is thrilled to see former Red Sox slugger Rafael Devers come to Giants in blockbuster trade that should fortify lineup

Sweeping the Yankees was only the second biggest piece of Boston Red Sox news this weekend. In a stunner, the Red Sox have traded star slugger Rafael Devers to the San Francisco Giants in a rare mid-June blockbuster.

Rafael Devers … is a Giant? The Red Sox just … sent him away? This is the sort of deal that you don’t really see that much in baseball anymore: It almost feels like more of an NBA trade, doesn’t it? It sure had the shock of one.