MLB Roundtable: Can the Giants count on Devers? How will the Red Sox rebound?

Major League Baseball was rocked by the trade that sent Rafael Devers from the Boston Red Sox to the San Francisco Giants earlier this week. Since then, Devers has made Giants debut, and the Red Sox have played their first game without him.

In this week's MLB roundtable, FOX Sports' Rowan Kavner and Deesha Thosar share their early impressions of the Devers trade, and discuss other big topics around the league:

1. Juan Soto was notably struggling — well, for Juan Soto — in the first two months of the season, but he’s batting .351/.519/.737 with six homers in his last 17 games. Is it fair to say that we can turn the page now and start his Mets career for real, or are there lingering concerns?

Kavner: I’m not concerned at all. I mean, look how red this page is. Soto was one of the unluckiest hitters in baseball at the start of the year, and now you’re starting to see the inevitable results arrive. He may not be matching what he did last year, but his underlying numbers are comparable. He actually has a higher walk rate, lower strikeout rate and is hitting the ball harder than he did last season. It’s also notable that while he’s starting to perform more like himself, he’s also starting to look more like himself. Soto’s confidence and enjoyment on the field are such distinct parts of his game, so when something’s off with his body language, it’s more noticeable. He didn’t seem particularly comfortable early on in Queens, but we’ve finally seen the shuffle again, and I expect him to look more and more like the player the Mets envisioned having.

Thosar: Soto has definitely started to look more like himself at the plate lately. He’s staring down pitchers in the box. He’s showing familiar signs of his patented shuffle. He’s