The Boston Red Sox have been the most talked about team in baseball over the last few days. The reason for this isn’t the team’s back-to-back wins over the red-hot Kansas City Royals, but instead the drama swirling around Rafael Devers and first base.

The Boston Red Sox were perfectly justified in asking Rafael Devers to vacate third base for Alex Bregman and become a designated hitter. They are far less justified in asking Devers to switch again and,

On the field at least, the Red Sox did not seem like a team impacted at all by the Rafael Devers melodrama over the last two days. They picked up their biggest series win of 2025 in Kansas City.