I just want to point out, since 2019 John Henry and ownership basically disappeared for the next 4-5 seasons and were fine just letting the Sox rot and be a mediocre baseball team. They weren't spending to the levels needed and didn't care about making any postseason push outside of 2021 which looks like a fluke now (and they let go of a bunch of good players that offseason anyways). Empty trade deadlines and one year of being sellers.
But now all of a sudden they care again? Henry is meeting with Devers 1 on 1?
The issue isn't just Devers, but this organization has basically let the team become unhinged. Even Cora you can tell is just doing as he pleases sometimes and isn't really in the mood to have too many tough conversations. He did with Devers this offseason when they signed Bregman and said he was only to DH, but now Cora is also like "really, I now have to beg Devers to play 1B, why can't you [Breslow] do it"
All parties look terrible in this. Devers, Cora, Breslow, ownership. They do. No one gets a "pass". And Henry, Werner + Kennedy allowed this to unfold because of how they operated this franchise from 2020-2024. If you also want to say the Devers signing was bad, it's also because they let Betts + Bogaerts and others walk and were basically forced to do it. Again, that's on them.
