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Rafael Devers is beginning his mandate with the San Francisco giants on the right foot, and began with him saying all the right things in his first press conference.
Devers, putting his new Jersey for the first time since he was surprisingly exchanged for Boston’s red socks, was presented to Bay Area Middle on Tuesday before his first game.
Devers was in the alignment as the team’s designated hitter, and the only big question about his new chapter of the MLB was where the giants planned to interpret it.
Matt Chapman, a gold glover, is cemented in the third base, the natural position of Devers.
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Rafael Devers of the San Francisco giants is heated before a match against the Cleveland Guardians in San Francisco on Tuesday, June 17, 2025. (AP Photo/Jeff Chiu)
But Devers doesn’t care where he plays with his new team.
“I’m here to give my 100%,” he said through an interpreter on Tuesday. “I don’t put any richer. They are the men in charge.
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“I am here to play wherever I want to play.”
This is a different tone than that Devers took the whole season with the Red Sox, who began when they signed Alex Bregman, another third Gold Glove base, to presumably start the year in the hot corner.
That is exactly what happened to Alex Cora’s team after Devers said publicly that he was not going to deliver the third base to Bregman in spring training. After conversations with Cora and the main office, he changed his tone. But he intensified again when Triston Casas, the first initial base of the team, was lost during the rest of the year.
Rafael Devers de los Gigantes de San Francisco speaks at a press conference before a match against Cleveland Guardians in San Francisco on Tuesday, June 17, 2025. (AP Photo/Jeff Chiu)
Devers publicly revealed that he would not play the first base, preferring to remain the full -time batter.
While there was a crack between Devers and the main office, according to the reports, it did not want to be marketed. The Baseball Director of the Red Sox, Craig Breslow, spoke with the media on Monday after the successful disorder, saying that the team “had a different vision for him in the future than him.”
“We couldn’t get there, what we felt we needed him, that would be the best for Ball Club,” Breslow said.
Devers signed a 10 -year agreement worth $ 313.5 million in January 2023 to be an cornerstone of the red socks.
Rafael Devers of the San Francisco giants smiles at a press conference before a game between the giants and the Cleveland guardians in San Francisco on Tuesday, June 17, 2025. (AP Photo/Jeff Chiu)
But the giants, who assume all financial responsibilities for the rest of that agreement, are excited to see what Devers can bring in a loaded NL West.
