Devers did make a nice play, last night, but swapping the two has a lot of merit.
It might be harder to do in the middle of a season in progress, and I think they want to give Devers one more long look at 3B.
If we are, indeed a non playoff contender, as you point out, why not find out for sure, even if just for a couple more months?
He did look pretty good a couple years back- a very long stretch.