Should Red Sox call up the big-name prospects? Should Devers stay at DH? Time to start blaming Cora for the under .500 start? #MLB
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00:00yeah the socks i think i might have been totally wrong they suck and cora sucks the most like what
00:06a sackless coward sitting there saying he wouldn't ask devers i know like what would you say you do
00:15here that's your job and i i feel like i don't get it i don't get why he he signed the three-year
00:24deal he's obviously got say in the front office he was a huge part in bringing bregman here
00:30cora was a guy who would do whatever francona asked as a player and he doesn't have the balls
00:38to ask devers and also devers doesn't speak up and say i want to help the team he's not you know
00:44he doesn't uh lack any culpability but i don't know how john henry or anybody that runs this
00:50organization tolerates the manager they're paying seven million dollars a year saying he will not
00:54ask the player that would most help the team to play first base well and you're right in uh in a
01:00little bit about devers like he could insist that he wants to help out and and spend a little time
01:07over there at first base i mean what the hell does that mean i mean if devers plays first base or not
01:12you're like we could kill i could care less i think it's more about you know because you have all these
01:19other young players in and um down in and uh what's the that you want to bring up roman anthony
01:25marcelo my this is the perfect opportunity first base is open they're waiting on them because they
01:30are being frugal i like let's call it what it is they are waiting on those guys because they want to
01:37earn extra service at the end of the at the end of the thing and delay the inevitable when it comes
01:42to paying their prospects like him not playing deficit first base isn't the reason why the red
01:48socks team is struggling or stinks or or even the fact that i mean maybe it shows that as a manager
01:54and with the front office maybe he doesn't have as much power as we think but i but really does
02:01i mean we all wanted devers to go to dh now all of a sudden it's like a big thing he has to be a
02:05first base right well it's not that wiggs it's just that you're the manager of the team
02:11and you don't even broach the topic well yeah i said that that's why i said it definitely leads to
02:18some power struggle where you know maybe front office says we want to keep him at uh dh don't
02:25even ask him right and the manager's like well i want to ask him but that's where the there's a
02:29power struggle no but it's reportedly it's the opposite is that the front office wants him to play
02:33first and they cora refuses to ask him to well yeah but that that to me is the power struggle
02:39with breslow and and cora and how long does this relationship last you know we thought about all
02:46that's cool everything's good but now if there's you know this power struggle between the front office
02:51and the manager yeah i just i don't even know how anybody defends it how what what's the other side
02:57of this greg what what is the uh cora explanation as to why he refuses to do it oh because they
03:05ruffled the feathers of rafael devers and asked them to be a dh in uh in only form and so they don't
03:15want to go back and risk uh upsetting the face of the franchise it's like how everybody else deals
03:21with uh a workplace that potentially can be full of some who have uh have issues i guess i he probably
03:30said listen we already got him to move off a third base he went kicking and screaming and he got cut
03:37he's comfortable with the dh so do we really want to have to force him to maybe he doesn't want to
03:43play first base it's exactly what their explanation was when we asked why he didn't fill in for
03:48bregman when bregman was on paternity leave they said he's getting used to dh that's that's they
03:53want him in that role they want him to figure out that uh you know the flow of the game in that role
04:00the mindset and so that could screw with it but that's a much different thing where it's a game
04:04whereas this is the rest of the season it's an opening that will exist between now and october
04:09should they decide not to make any moves so i i agreed with the bregman move because you're gonna i
04:15mean i found it silly but baseball but that's fine it's one day this is going to be between now and
04:21the end of september you can text this show at any time on the subaru of new england text line
04:26and here is a 508 text wondering looking at this in a positive for alex cora is he trying to force
04:35their hand when it comes to bringing the prospects up sooner than later that's a good point curtis well
04:41okay but why in between now and then why wouldn't you ask him like to not even ask him is a blatant
04:48way to tell your bosses you're not doing your job well his job is to communicate to the player
04:55at and explain to them what is expected of them well maybe he doesn't agree with them and maybe it's
05:00like i'm not asking him because i don't agree putting him at first base like courtney said he's in
05:06the mindset of being a dh i'm not messing with that flow we've already basically probably told
05:11them like this is the position that you're going to play from here on out moving forward so i'm not
05:16even gonna ruffle those feathers and bring them up let's figure out where we can do who we could put
05:22there in another position because if you put him there and he's not great then you got to get
05:27him about it yeah right oh the horror oh but it just messes with baseball players i just said he's
05:33the face of your of your franchise and i i'm sure the conversation didn't go great when they broke
05:38the news to him that he was not going to be at third he was going to dh and they don't want to
05:42ruin that relationship further i don't think devers is the face of the franchise i don't think he's
05:46the most beloved player on the team by fans i think it's alex cora is the face of the red sox for
05:50better or worse you think bregman is working himself toward that yeah for me it was kyle and
05:55wall fan but they told him not to offer him a contract yeah i definitely agree that bregman is
05:59probably like amongst the fans because he's having a good year but i think if you went nationally and
06:04said okay who's the face of the boston red sox people everywhere would go uh rafael bevers like
06:11the same way we would go like aaron judge or juan soto yeah all right