Red Sox Mirror Image: Third Basemen Rafael Devers and Joe Foy

A sixth installment mirroring Boston Red Sox players of the present with one from my memories of the past. This is the third basemen – Rafael Devers to Joe Foy.

Initially, this was to be a comparison of Red Sox third basemen Rafael Devers and Butch Hobson since I wished to avoid a comparison to the tragic circumstances of Joe Foy. I changed my mind when it was recently announced that Devers now has a personal trainer to aid with his conditioning – an issue that eventually contributed to short-circuiting Foy’s career and results in his early death.

Devers we know about since the upside for the 22-year-old lefty slugger is significant – big things are expected of Devers and big becomes an…