The Purple Sox, one way or the other, had the most effective and worst weekend on the identical time.
Whereas Boston swept the rival Yankees, it was moments after Sunday’s matinee sport that the enjoyment was ripped away when it was shockingly introduced the Purple Sox had traded star Rafael Devers to the Giants.
Purple Sox followers weren’t ready for this rollercoaster of feelings and lambasted the franchise for being low-cost as soon as once more.
“Baseball is Lifeless” podcast host Jared Carrabis took to X to air his emotions concerning the deal.
“How the f–okay do you commerce Rafael Devers?” Carrabis mentioned. “For A: That return and B: the second during which you probably did it.”
Ringer founder Invoice Simmons introduced a concept on X a few doable purpose for the commerce.
The proprietor of the Purple Sox, John Henry, additionally owns the Premier League-winning soccer crew Liverpool.
Simmons hinted on X that the doable motive behind the commerce was to assist finance the latest switch to Liverpool, Florian Wirtz. Liverpool reportedly paid his former membership $100 million for the midfielder.
Devers is within the third season of a 10-year, $313 million contract and had been at odds with the crew this spring coaching, after he was moved from third base to DH for the newly signed Alex Bregman.
It isn’t the primary time possession has traded one among its star gamers, a lot to the frustration of its fan base.
Mookie Betts was traded to the Dodgers earlier than the 2020 season for 3 gamers who didn’t pan out.
Betts was within the closing yr of his contract and would signal a 12-year, $365 million take care of Los Angeles — and he has since helped the franchise win two World Sequence.
“I awakened nonetheless mad [about] the Devers commerce,” Barstool founder Dave Portnoy wrote on X. “If you’re making an attempt to win you simply don’t commerce your greatest hitter for nothing in the course of the season. John Henry and (minority proprietor) LeBron [James] have turned the Purple Sox into the Oakland A’s with fancy hubcaps.”
It looks as if historical past has repeated itself but once more in Boston. Hopefully, this time, it would work out higher.
