More than 24 hours after the Red Sox shocked baseball by trading star slugger Rafael Devers to the San Francisco Giants, team president Sam Kennedy and chief baseball officer Craig Breslow fielded questions from the media via Zoom.
Monday’s 45-minute Zoom call covered topics ranging from the impasse between Devers and Boston’s top brass and the Red Sox’s focus on culture.
Here are eight takeaways from Monday’s press conference.
‘Something amiss‘
Craig Breslow said the quiet part out loud during his opening comments on Monday’s presser.
“It’d be tough to sit here and say, when you move a player of Raffy’s caliber — when you take that bat out of the lineup, how can I sit here and say that ‘We’re a better team.