{"id":35637,"date":"2025-02-20T12:06:24","date_gmt":"2025-02-20T12:06:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sportnews.azontree.com\/?p=35637"},"modified":"2025-02-20T12:06:24","modified_gmt":"2025-02-20T12:06:24","slug":"triston-casas-rafael-devers-comments-draw-strong-response-from-red-sox-manager","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sportnews.azontree.com\/?p=35637","title":{"rendered":"Triston Casas&#8217; Rafael Devers comments draw strong response from Red Sox manager"},"content":{"rendered":"<article>The Boston Red Sox have had quite the off-season. On paper, they went from being a subpar roster to arguably one of the more talented rosters in the American League. Much of that has to do with the Red Sox&#8217;s addition of third baseman Alex Bregman.<\/p>\n<p>Once Boston landed the former All-Star infielder, questions arose on who would start at the hot corner. After all, the Red Sox already have one of the best-hitting third-baseman in all of baseball, Rafael Devers. That prompted first baseman Triston Casas to stand up for Devers, all but calling the spot his.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI think it\u2019s Raffy Devers&#8217; position,\u201d Casas said, per Christopher Smith of MassLive.com. \u201cHe\u2019s done it for a really long time now. And I think he\u2019s only getting better at that position. We have some grown men that need to iron things out.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>On Wednesday, Boston manager Alex Cora was asked his thoughts on Casas&#8217; comments.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI played with guys who were very thoughtful in what they wanted to say and their opinions,\u201d Cora said, as captured by Red Sox beat writer Chris Cotillo.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI played with Curt (Schilling). He was very thoughtful and said his thing. People will express what they feel. Some people are going to agree, and some people aren\u2019t going to agree. Some people are gonna like it. Others aren\u2019t gonna like it. At the end, we like the first baseman. He\u2019s gonna play, and he\u2019s gonna hit.\u201d<\/p>\n<div>\n<p>Related Boston Red Sox NewsArticle continues below<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>However they slice it, Boston will have one of the most talented infields in all of baseball.<\/p>\n<p>Devers is a three-time All-Star and won the Silver Slugger Award in 2023. Bregman is a two-time All-Star who also won the Silver Slugger Award back in 2019. That same year, he finished second in AL MVP voting. But he is also coming off winning his first Gold Glove at third base last year.<\/p>\n<p>However, Cora previously hinted at the idea of Bregman moving to second, though.<\/p>\n<p>Casas and Trevor Story will fill out the rest of the infield. But it was not just the offense that was upgraded during the off-season.<\/p>\n<p>The Red Sox traded for ace starting pitcher Garrett Crochet from the Chicago White Sox.<\/p>\n<\/article>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Boston Red Sox have a great problem to have, with too many good third baseman on the roster and some loud voices.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":35638,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[238,46,703,723],"class_list":["post-35637","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-mlb","tag-alex-bregman","tag-alex-cora","tag-rafael-devers","tag-triston-casas"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v23.6 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Triston Casas&#039; Rafael Devers comments draw strong response from Red Sox manager - NEWS USA<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/sportnews.azontree.com\/?p=35637\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Triston Casas&#039; 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