Asked To Play First Base By The Boston Red Sox, Rafael Devers Rejects The Idea

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Boston Red Sox’s Rafael Devers, right, is all smiles as he heads to the dugout after after hitting a … More home run during the seventh inning of a baseball game against the Texas Rangers, Thursday, May 8, 2025, in Boston. (AP Photo/Jim Davis) Copyright 2025 The Associated Press. All rights reserved Thursday afternoon was supposed to a be feel good kind of afternoon for the Boston Red Sox. There was a routine shutout win to avoid a sweep and a late homer by Rafael Devers who is spending the entire season as a full-time designated hitter. It is a position change for Devers because the Red Sox signed Alex Bregman for at least this year to play third base. Third base also happens to be Devers’ position but Bregman is regarded as the better defender and the Red Sox asked their franchise player to switch to being a DH during spring training. Recently after Triston Casas ruptured the patellar tendon in his left knee and was lost for the season, the Red Sox were seeking a power hitting bat to hold down first base so led by chief baseball officer and former reliever Craig Breslow, they thought to ask Devers about doing so. It turned out it was not as cut and dry as a player accepting a position change and Devers basically said that while telling reporters in Boston about his reluctance to switch positions for the second time this season. “They had the conversation with me,” Devers told reporters through an interpreter. “I don’t think, for me personally, it’s the best decision after they asked me to play a different position. And I only had two months playing this position, to all of a sudden have me try to play another position. So, from my end, it…