{"id":56370,"date":"2025-06-16T08:00:36","date_gmt":"2025-06-16T08:00:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/usatoday.azontree.com\/?p=56370"},"modified":"2025-06-16T08:00:36","modified_gmt":"2025-06-16T08:00:36","slug":"red-sox-blockbuster-who-did-boston-get-for-rafael-devers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/usatoday.azontree.com\/?p=56370","title":{"rendered":"Red Sox Blockbuster: Who Did Boston Get for Rafael Devers?"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"post-featured-container-id\">\n<div id=\"post-featured\" class=\"has-video wp-caption \">\n<div class=\"h-responsive\">\n<figure class=\"h-responsive__inner\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"attachment-featured-image size-featured-image wp-post-image\" src=\"https:\/\/heavy.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/06\/GettyImages-2210099998-e1750037852613.jpg?quality=65&amp;strip=all&amp;w=780\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 820px) 95vw, 780px\" srcset=\"https:\/\/heavy.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/06\/GettyImages-2210099998-e1750037852613.jpg?quality=65&amp;strip=all&amp;w=780 780w, https:\/\/heavy.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/06\/GettyImages-2210099998-e1750037852613.jpg?quality=15&amp;strip=all&amp;w=1100 1100w, https:\/\/heavy.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/06\/GettyImages-2210099998-e1750037852613.jpg?quality=35&amp;strip=all&amp;w=1350 1350w\" alt=\"Red Sox new pitcher Jordan Hicks.\" width=\"780\" height=\"439\" data-dom-ready-time=\"2558\" data-img-load-time=\"3668\" \/><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"wp-caption-text\"><span class=\"caption-credit\">Getty<\/span><\/div>\n<div class=\"featured-widget-area\">\n<div id=\"heavy_multi_stn_video_player_widget-4\" class=\"stn-player-cls stn-player-container\">\n<div data-stn-player=\"wfgg3pv0\"><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p>The fact that the\u00a0Red Sox\u2018s trade of\u00a0Rafael Devers\u00a0on Sunday, just as the team is heading out on a lengthy jaunt to the West Coast, is understandable. The relationship between the team and player deteriorated over the course of this season because of his position\u2013he is not a very good third baseman, and resisted the move to designated hitter. Then, when the Red Sox needed a first baseman following the injury to\u00a0Triston Casas, Devers flatly said he would not make that move.<\/p>\n<p>For a player who is being paid to be a leader\u2013$313 million is a hefty investment\u2013the Red Sox apparently felt that Devers just wasn\u2019t the right fit, even though he has been the lynchpin holding the team\u2019s wobbly offense together in the absence of\u00a0Alex Bregman.<\/p>\n<p>Trading away Devers, a homegrown star who was batting .272 and whose .905 OPS ranks 12th in all of baseball, is gonna sting for Red Sox fans. But it might sting more when they get a look at who came back in the trade: A pair of so-so pitchers, a bright slugging prospect who needs more time and a 20-year-old pitcher who\u2019s still four or five years away.<\/p>\n<h2>Red Sox Get 2 MLB Pitchers<\/h2>\n<p>If you\u2019re looking for some star power or some eye-popping prospects in return for Devers, forget it. This was a move about clearing his salary and reshaping the team\u2019s future chemistry. The Red Sox will get two major-league pitchers, though neither are slated to help out now.<\/p>\n<p><strong>RHP Jordan Hicks.\u00a0<\/strong>Hicks is an experienced swing man who has had seven years in the big leagues and his numbers are \u2026 well, they\u2019re numbers. A one-time highly regarded prospect, Hicks has never impressed in the bigs. He\u2019s 1-5 with a 6.47 ERA this season, in 13 appearances, nine of which were starts. He last started on May 9 and has been demoted to the bullpen since, making five appearances in that time. He\u2019s been on the injured list with inflammation in his arm but should be back soon.<\/p>\n<p><strong>LHP Kyle Harrison.\u00a0<\/strong>Harrison is only 23 and was a third-round pick of the Giants in 2020. He has some upside given his age, but he dealt with shoulder and ankle injuries that slowed him in 2024. This year, he started the year with Triple-A Sacramento before being called up to San Francisco, where he made four relief appearances and four starts, posting a 1-1 record with a 4.56 ERA. He will not start with the Red Sox, instead\u00a0beginning his tenure in Worcester.<\/p>\n<h2>Trade Nets a Pair of Prospects<\/h2>\n<p><strong>IF\/OF James Tibbs.\u00a0<\/strong>Tibbs is the highest ceiling prospect of the players the Red Sox are bringing in, a slugger who knocked 55 home runs in three seasons at Florida State before the Giants made him their 2024 first-round pick. He\u2019s rated the Giants\u2019 No. 4 overall prospect by MLB.com. Here\u2019s a piece of\u00a0Baseball America\u2019s rather unenthusiastic scouting report\u00a0on him: \u201cTibbs has solid but unspectacular raw power. \u2026 . He\u2019s a corner profile through and through, whether that\u2019s in an outfield corner or at first base, and is expected to be a below-average defender in either spot. Despite a bat-only profile, Tibbs has hit enough to warrant first-round selection.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><strong>RHP Jose Bello.\u00a0<\/strong>There likely is upside with Bello, but he has not had much of a chance to show it. He was signed out of the Dominican Republic two years ago by the Giants as a free agent. In the time since, he has only played rookie ball, going 2-4 with a 2.97 ERA in 25 appearances, 15 starts. He has an impressive 105 strikeouts in 78.2 innings pitched. But the key number on him is 20\u2013his age. He\u2019s a long, long way from sniffing Fenway.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Getty The fact that the\u00a0Red Sox\u2018s trade of\u00a0Rafael Devers\u00a0on Sunday, just as the team is heading out on a lengthy jaunt to the West Coast, is understandable&#8230;. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":56371,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-56370","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-mlb"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v23.8 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Red Sox Blockbuster: Who Did Boston Get for Rafael Devers? - 24\/7 News America<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/usatoday.azontree.com\/?p=56370\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Red Sox Blockbuster: Who Did Boston Get for Rafael Devers? 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