The Boston Purple Sox nonetheless can not seem to determine the place they need Rafael Devers to play this season.
After they signed Alex Bregman in free company, they moved Devers from third base to designated hitter. Then, when Triston Casas injured the patellar tendon in his left knee, Boston requested the 28-year-old star to mull over a place change once more. Unsurprisingly, he wasn’t blissful about that.
“I do know I am a ballplayer, however on the similar time, they cannot anticipate me to play each single place on the market,” Devers mentioned Thursday, per Christopher Smith of MassLive.com. “In spring coaching, they talked to me and mainly advised me to place away my glove — that I wasn’t going to play some other place however DH. So proper now I simply really feel prefer it’s not simply an applicable choice by them to ask me to play one other place.”
Who may blame Devers for not wanting to change positions once more, particularly when he is getting the cling of DH after a tumultuous begin?
On Sunday, in a highway recreation towards the Kansas Metropolis Royals. Devers performed at DH. He blasted a 440-foot two-run house run into middle discipline within the high of the sixth inning. (Left fielder Jarren Duran scored.)
