Rafael Devers has been sad with the Boston Crimson Sox for the higher a part of the final 4 months, and one franchise legend feels supervisor Alex Cora is responsible.
Pedro Martinez shared his ideas on the drama between Devers and the Crimson Sox throughout Tuesday’s “B/R Walkoff Dwell.” The Corridor of Fame pitcher stated he believes Cora has accomplished a poor job preserving issues together with his star slugger in-house.
For starters, Martinez feels Cora might have merely requested Devers to take some reps at first base with out discussing the 28-year-old altering positions once more.
“If Alex needed to inform Devers to go to first and get some floor balls till (the staff will get) wholesome, serious about the long run, Devers would have gone to first, catch some floor balls, and no person would have recognized that Devers was being educated to be a primary baseman,” Martinez stated. “Not even Devers would most likely notice that he was really being (conditioned) to turn into a primary baseman, as a result of Devers by no means says no to any sort of labor that you just ask him to do. He’ll go to first. He’ll go to the outfield and catch (fly) balls.”
Martinez says the identical is true of how the state of affairs was dealt with after the Crimson Sox signed Gold Glove Award-winning third baseman Alex Bregman.
“I do not suppose it ought to have been on the market that he was most likely gonna be tried at first base and that Bregman was gonna be the one man at third,” Martinez stated. “As a result of what occurs if Bregman will get harm unexpectedly? It’s important to go to Devers to play third.
“You possibly can’t inform him, ‘Throw your glove away.’ You possibly can’t inform him, ‘Hey, we would like you to now decide up a glove at first and turn into a primary baseman.’ The man’s shy sufficient. He does not wish to look dangerous. Consider me, I am a witness. No one needs to go in entrance of 45,000 individuals and embarrass himself making an attempt a place that he by no means performed.”
