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David Ortiz Addresses Red Sox S Rafael Devers Trade Your Worst Enemy

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In a shocking move, the Boston Red Sox traded All-Star third baseman Rafael Devers to the San Francisco Giants just hours after sweeping the New York Yankees at Fenway Park on Sunday. The move was especially surprising given that Devers was still under contract through 2033 and seemingly part of the Red Sox’s foreseeable future. The front office decided to part ways with the superstar slugger, however, after a dramatic offseason and first half of the 2025 campaign. Try PFSN's FREE fantasy baseball trade analyzer to help you make the best decisions for your fantasy teams! After this stunning move, Boston legend David Ortiz appeared to criticize Devers and his ego for ruining his relationship with the team. “Players need to take this as an example, nobody is indispensable,” Ortiz said via Yancen Pujols.

“You have to be available. That was the end of the relationship between Devers and the Red Sox. You need to be smart to understand the situation. Your worst enemy is your ego.” The Boston Red Sox shook up the organization on Sunday by stunningly trading Rafael Devers to the San Francisco Giants just three years into his 10-year, $313.5 million deal. The decision to trade Devers ultimately seems to have stemmed from his unwillingness to put the team first when it came to his defensive position.

He was initially displeased about having to move to DH after the team acquired Alex Bregman to play third base, and was resistant to the idea of playing first base in the wake of... That didn't sit well with management and ownership, who ultimately pulled the plug on Devers's time in Boston. Red Sox legend David Ortiz addressed Devers's departure during an interview with baseball content creator Yancen Pujols. Ortiz offered his honest assessment of the situation, saying, "Players need to take this as an example. Nobody is indispensable. ...

You need to be smart and you need to understand the situation. Your worst enemy is your ego," Ortiz said, translated from Spanish. Send this article to your social connections. Send this article to your social connections. David Ortiz said he knew the situation between Rafael Devers and the Red Sox wasn’t going to end well. Devers, who began his career with playing third base for the Sox, initially bristled at the idea of switching to designated hitter.

He made the switch and produced at the plate, but the Red Sox asked him to make another position switch to first base after Triston Casas went down with a season-ending injury. One of the biggest storylines leading up to the MLB trade deadline was the fractured relationship between the Boston Red Sox organization and Rafael Devers. The situation was messy from start to finish, largely due to Devers feeling misled by the team. “Devers, according to a person familiar with his thinking, felt 'lied to and betrayed' by the Red Sox. Cora, long one of Devers' chief supporters and advocates, supported his expulsion. Craig Breslow, the Red Sox's chief baseball officer whom Devers publicly badmouthed amid the hostility, played hatchet man,” MLB’s Jeff Passan wrote.

As a result, Devers was ultimately traded before the deadline. He landed in the Bay Area, joining the San Francisco Giants. “The Red Sox had just pulled off a three-game sweep of the rival Yankees for their seventh win in the last eight games and were getting ready for a Sunday night West Coast trip... Star slugger Rafael Devers, the lone remaining player from the team’s most recent World Series title squad of 2018, was dealt to the Giants for righty Jordan Hicks, lefty Kyle Harrison and a pair... 4 prospect at the time of the deal) and righty Jose Bello,” MLB.com’s Ian Browne wrote. During an interview on the ITM Podcast, David Ortiz shared his honest thoughts on the Devers trade.

Legendary Boston Red Sox designated hitter David Ortiz understands why the team traded Rafael Devers. In his first comments since the deal, Ortiz took the team's side, saying, "You have to give the club the benefit of the doubt." That's a departure from Ortiz's take earlier in June, when he seemed to agree with Devers' decision to stick at designated hitter following an injury to first baseman Triston Casas. At the time, Ortiz said, "He's doing great as the DH. They asked for it, and he's doing great as the DH." But following Sunday's deal, which saw Devers traded to the San Francisco Giants, Ortiz reversed course, implying that ego and maturity played a role in the team's decision, per The Athletic.

“The organization is always going to be there. Players come and go. As a player, sometimes you’ve got to put your ego aside and understand that once you get paid, you’ve got to find a way to do what you’re told,” Ortiz said. “That’s a message for all young players who think they turn out to be bigger than the game. I’m not saying that Devers was like that. He’s humble.

He’s a good kid. But sometimes when you’re young and immature, you (don’t realize that)." Hall of Famer David Ortiz works for the Boston Red Sox as a special assistant to the Fenway Sports Group. But he said his opinion of the Rafael Devers trade is informed more by his 14 years as a player with the Red Sox than his current role with the club. “I played for the Red Sox a long time,” Ortiz said Monday. “You think everything with me and the Red Sox was roses and flowers?

I went through some tough times also. But I was mature enough to understand and keep things internal. Even in the best families, between the best brothers, s— happens. You need to have the maturity to resolve the problems and move on.” Ortiz, 49, experienced occasional turbulence in his contract negotiations with the Red Sox. Some of the squabbles went public, but he ultimately finished his career with the team.

In 2017, one year after he retired, the Red Sox signed him to what they described as a “forever” contract, enabling him to play a variety of roles with the club. Devers, 28, did not resolve his problems with Boston’s front office. And on Sunday, the Red Sox made one of the most stunning baseball trades in recent memory, sending Devers to the San Francisco Giants for right-hander Jordan Hicks, left-hander Kyle Harrison, outfield prospect James... Ortiz, a colleague of mine at Fox Sports, does not consider the Red Sox blameless in the breakdown of their relationship with their best hitter, a homegrown slugger who was in the second year... But after Devers’ initial resistance to becoming a DH and subsequent refusal to play first base, Ortiz said, “I knew it wasn’t going to end well. There was too much going on, you know?”

A lot of Boston Red Sox fans had strong reactions to Rafael Devers being traded to the San Francisco Giants in June, and legendary designated hitter David Ortiz could aptly be included in that... Ortiz went on something of a media blitz when Devers was traded, saying the ex-Red Sox third baseman "disrespected himself" and showing a string of unanswered texts from Devers during an Instagram Live video. Devers, for his part, said Ortiz could "say whatever he wants" as the fallout was still active. But that was June, and Ortiz has now had plenty of time to reflect on the whole ordeal. On Friday, Ortiz provided an update on where his relationship with Devers stands now, saying the two haven't spoken since the trade went down". "To who?

To Raffy? No, we haven't. We haven't talked," Ortiz told Joey Copponi and Scott Neville on the "ITM Podcast" on Friday. I mean, I'm always busy with my own thing. And he got to continue doing his job, which I congratulate him on because he finished the season really good. I mean, that's the Raffy that we all know.

The Boston Red Sox’s 2025 campaign was hectic to say the least. Despite trading away their best hitter, Rafael Devers, midway through the season, the Sox still managed to find their way to the playoffs. Looking back at that trade months later, the legendary David Ortiz has mixed feelings on Boston’s decision to cut bait with Devers. While Ortiz and Devers never played together in the majors, the former served as a mentor to the latter during his rise through the Red Sox’s farm system. For much of his career, it seemed like Devers was set to become the heir apparent to Ortiz as the team’s superstar designated hitter. Devers wasn’t happy when he was moved to designated hitter before the start of the 2025 season, though, and with tensions boiling, the front office eventually decided to send him to the San Francisco...

Ortiz admitted that you never want to lose a hitter with Devers, but he agreed with the team deciding to do what it felt like was best for the organization “You don’t want to let go of a batter like him,” Ortiz told Joey Copponi and Scott Neville on the “ITM Podcast” on Friday. “My thing with the situation is that I would expect a guy like Raffy to be one of the faces of this organization … Raffy is a good kid. Don’t get that caught up in the confusion. And that’s what bothers me most … We’re dealing with a good kid. Unfortunately, things didn’t work for the organization … Sometimes you have to make those moves.

I don’t argue that with the owners … They are the ones who ask you how much you want on your contract. They agreed (to Devers’ contract). But remember, you are an employee. You’re not a boss. There are not two bosses. There’s just one.

John Henry.” Red Sox legend and Hall of Famer David Ortiz made himself a living by crushing the baseball into the right field bleachers at Fenway Park, just like Rafael Devers. When Ortiz played, he played wherever he could to help the team. As for Devers, he didn't want to, and the organization took exception to his mannerisms. David Ortiz was asked by Yancen Pujols today about his thoughts on the infamous Devers trade, and he was more than willing to share. "Players need to take this as an example; nobody is indispensable.

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