But this is misleading because you if you do it for every player you end up with much more than 100%. Because other players have RBI on Devers's runs and other players have runs on Devers's RBI. Devers was part of 97 runs but he wasn't fully responsible for them. The only fully responsible run is a solo home run.
The Runs Above Replacement numbers are a much better representation of 'runs added'.
We're not going to lose 15% of our runs.
In 2024 Devers's RAR per B-R was 37 runs. Pro-rate that for what's left of 2025, we would lose about 20 runs, or 2 wins, compared to a replacement level DH.
Yes, there were questions about trading Sale right from the start. I went back and checked the thread. All the real old schoolers here hated it. My first post expressed approval because I thought it meant big starter acquisitions were on the way. But I was questioning it within a few days. It's all there in the Talksox archives.
Yes, there are 3 teams in notable offensive funks right now:
-Red Sox
-Yankees
-The team that's playing against the Red Sox
It's strange because June is usually a good hitters month.
But that's baseball.
Of course. But getting burned when you spend happens to every team that spends. Including the much-lauded Dodgers, who are paying large sums to Snell and Glasnow to rehab.
I distinctly remember that when I heard Devers's comments about the situation in that press conference, my first post was "Wow, they may have to trade him."
Nope. I was happy with how he was hitting and I stuck up for Cora's handling of the situation, but I was worried about the lingering clubhouse drama. When the team pulled the trigger on trading him I was comfortable that they were doing it because it was something they had to do.