Red Sox exec says he believes team could win 'more games' without Rafael Devers

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The Boston Red Sox appeared to turn their season around by sweeping the New York Yankees over the weekend - and then they traded away their franchise player.

Shortly after the Sox completed the three-game beatdown of the Bombers, they sent Rafael Devers, who homered on Sunday over the Green Monster, to the San Francisco Giants.

The writing had been on the wall for some time after the Sox signed third baseman Alex Bregman, and eventually, Devers refused to play first base. Devers has only been a designated hitter all season.

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Boston Red Sox's Rafael Devers, #11, flips his bat after hitting a home run against the Houston Astros during the sixth inning of a baseball game on Tuesday, Aug. 2, 2022 in Houston. (AP Photo/David J. Phillip)

"In the end, I think it's pretty clear that we couldn't find alignment with Raffy," Red Sox President and CEO Sam Kennedy told reporters on Monday, via MLB.com. "We all worked at it over the last several months, going back to the offseason, starting with [manager] Alex Cora and [chief baseball officer] Craig [Brewslow] and the staff, and then up to me, and all the way up to [owner] John Henry.

"We worked at it. We had a different vision for him going forward than he had, and we couldn't get there. We couldn't find alignment, and we reached that inflection point and made the decision to make a big move."

Despite losing, by far, their best bat, Breslow, a pitcher for 13 MLB seasons, said that the move is "in no way signifying a waving of the white flag on 2025."

In fact, Breslow actually believes that the trade will