RAFAEL DEVERS“ The transition from the position of the third basis to DH was one of the best sub -intrigues of the offseason, because it materialized the signature of Boston Alex Bregman to a $ 120 million contract over three years to become the new third goal player in the club. Manager of Red Sox Alex Cora Added another wrinkle to the situation during the floor with journalists (including the Jen McCaffrey of athletics) yesterday, noting that Devers is not at all in the third base plans, as Romy Gonzalez Intervenes in the warm corner when Bregman needs a day off.
“”Raffy goes to DH“Said Cora.We had a conversation, we talked about it. He’s dhing. It is the DH of Boston Red Sox. One thing is that we don’t want him to think about it too much. Don’t be taken in the whole. He will be fine. “”
We do not know how the SOXs could adapt if Bregman was missing a prolonged time on the injured list, but Cora’s declaration clearly highlights Boston’s commitment to maintain disversals only at the striker at the moment. McCaffrey writes that Devers always takes foundations to the third goal in the context of pre-match warming, perhaps as a means of maintaining part of its past pre-match routine while adapting globally to its new reality as a designated striker.
The first results were not great, because Devers is 0 for seven stick withdrawals during his first eight playing on the plate in 2025. Naturally, two games are a tiny sample size, and a certain rust was probably expected given how Devers appeared only in five spring training games. Devers has spent a good part of the offseason dealing with inflammation in both shoulders, and therefore the Red Sox decreased its workload in the camp while Devers retired in full health. The impact of the problem of the shoulder on the permanent also took into account the team’s decision to maintain permanent DH.
Although the plans can change as the season develops, it would certainly seem that SOX try to mitigate the deours in a full -time DH role in the long term. Bregman can withdraw from his contract after the season, and although Devers could potentially be given to the third goal after a year of leave, it would seem more likely that the Red Sox would use Bregman’s departure as a means of obtaining Star Prospect Marcelo Mayer in the range.
Mayer made his debut in Triple-A in the Worcester match with the Syracuse dishes yesterday, and it is widely planned that the inner field player will make his MLB debut at one point in 2026. If Mayer had had his way, he would have jumped Triple-A entirely and already part of the SOX alignment after posting a large number in spring.
“”Based on performance, I feel like I have won a place in this team“Said Mayer in an interview with Jones & Keefe Weei Show.”That being said, things did not go in my way and now I’m here (in triple-a) and I’m just going to go every day and continue to do what I do. “”
The comments provoked a little on social networks, but Cora told Christopher Smith de Masslive.com and other journalists that he “100%“Wants to see his players share Mayer’s confident attitude. Obviously, Mayer’s production will dictate the speed with which he could join the show, but given the crowded nature of the current Boston list, it will be interesting to see how the Red Soxs cut out playing time for the fourth overall choice. Since the SOXs will not want Mayer to be just to roll the bench, perhaps a kind of injury to need to pass a promotion from Madial before.
Michael Fulmer is also in Worcester, and will work as a launcher during his stay with the minors, told Smith, senior director of the Red Sox players, Brian Abraham. There is a certain flexibility at stake since Abraham said “Right now“Fulmer will start, but the SOXs seem interested in stretching Fulmer to see what he can do in a potential return to a starting role.
Beginning his career as a starter with the Tigers, Fulmer was an instant success in capturing the honors of the recruit of the year in 2016. Wounds (including Tommy John surgery which cost him all the time in 2019) required a move to the readers in 2021, and Fulmer seemed to prosper in this role while playing with the Tigers, The vintages in places 2021-23. Unfortunately, Fulmer continued to combat health problems, and he underwent a revision of the UCL in October 2023 which cost him another full season, because he did not launch in 2024.
The Red Soxs inked Fulmer to a two -year minor league contract in February 2024, thinking that he would take the first year in rehabilitation, then prepare for a return this season. Fulmer told Smith that he and the Director of Baseball of the Red Sox, Craig Breslow, had even discussed a possible return at the start of the launch when the contract was signed for the first time, and Fulmer is ready to work in any capacity.
“”If he sticks, he sticks. If this is not the case, then I go back to the enclosure of the lifts“Said Fulmer.I made the transition once and it was a fairly easy transition. I appreciated both (roles). “”
