Alex Cora offered a mixed bag of thoughts when discussing the Rafael Devers trade with the "Section 10" podcast. He said the team could have talked more to Devers ahead of bringing in Alex Bregman (who was thought to possibly take reps at second base) to open spring training “and let him know, hey, there’s a lot of guys out there, you never know what can happen”.
As an organization, Cora suggested Boston didn’t manage the situation as well as it should have, but he was quick to point out that the team had to move on and quickly in order to “survive the season.