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The Rafael Devers Trade Halted All Red Sox Momentum

The Red Sox put together a run of baseball that had them back in contention. Then they traded Rafael Devers.
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Brandon Glick
After sweeping the Yankees, the Red Sox were back in contention with a five-game losing streak. Then, they traded Devers, and it's been all downhill since.

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28 minutes ago, Bellhorn04 said:

They actually won 3 of their first 4 without Devers. 

Weirdly enough, the Red Sox and Giants are both 4-7 since the trade.

 

I was going to point that out, too.

We all knew losing Devers was going to make a major impact on our offense, especially when also knowing Bregman was not going to be back, anyday soon. I know June trades are rare, but I kind of expected we had a second trade line-up to at least partially address the hit to our offense (like Hoskins or even a lesser bat.)

At this point, I'm on the verge of jumping on the sell wagon's front seat. (Not yet, but I'm close.)

Except for 2 games in the Angels series, we've been up against some pretty good starting pitching since we traded Devers.  Give some credit to good pitching by the opposition.

That's not to say that we don't need some help getting our offense going, but we've been in offensive ruts like this when Devers was on the team.  I'm not sure our record would be that much different with Devers. 

Momentum?  Not at all a believer in its predictive ability.



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