Devers since trade: 836 OPS
Red Sox DH's not named Devers this season: 727 OPS
Devers since trade: 1.2 fWAR
Jordan Hicks since trade: -0.3 fWAR
The team would be BETTER if Devers was still here. Everytime Masa is DH'ing or Hicks is pitching, they'd be better with Devers. They went 3-7 the 10 games after trading Devers. They got better because they promoted Anthony, not because they traded Devers. Anthony and Devers could have been on the same team. Breslow just didn't like the contract.
I agree that the trade was a salary dump. SFG dumped Hicks onto BOS.
Since promoting Roman Anthony, the Red Sox are 45-27.