Triston Casas got hurt. That’s what caused this mess. As is famously the case with COVID revisionism — a force potent enough to have accelerated the collapse of the country — people are far more focused on point-scoring on second-order issues (“They signed Bregman!” “They told him he was a DH!” “He has feelings!”) than dealing with the first-order problem, which is that they lost their star first baseman for the year and there’s no good way to deal with that, nor to prevent it. Shit happens, happened and is happening, and there’s a lot of hand-wringing about who has done what wrong in a situation where there’s no good way to be right.
Here’s the real cause of the Rafael Devers scandal
