{"id":59942,"date":"2025-06-06T14:22:05","date_gmt":"2025-06-06T14:22:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sportnews.azontree.com\/?p=59942"},"modified":"2025-06-06T14:22:05","modified_gmt":"2025-06-06T14:22:05","slug":"yankees-jazz-chisholm-jr-weighs-in-on-rafael-devers-position-drama","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sportnews.azontree.com\/?p=59942","title":{"rendered":"Yankees&#8217; Jazz Chisholm Jr weighs in on Rafael Devers position drama"},"content":{"rendered":"<article>The New York Yankees took two of three from the Cleveland Guardians this week to move to 38-23. It was an important series for the Bombers as they tried to bounce back from a humiliating weekend against the Dodgers. The Yankees got infielder Jazz Chisholm Jr back from an oblique injury and plugged him in at third base, which he had never played before coming to The Bronx last summer. Now, they play the Boston Red Sox and Rafael Devers, who refused to play the field after Triston Casas&#8217; injury. Chisholm told Chris Kirschner of The Athletic that their situations are very different.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cHis situation, it\u2019s completely different than mine,\u201d Chisholm said. \u201cHe was promised [designated hitter]. That was promised to him. I believe if you\u2019re promised your position, you should go play the position you were promised. That\u2019s what he worked on his whole career. You can\u2019t go back on it. I don\u2019t have a problem with what he did.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>According to Devers, the Red Sox asked him to move to designated hitter and put the glove away during spring training. Alex Bregman had taken over at third base, and Casas was at first. But when Casas went out with an injury, the Sox asked Devers to play first. He denied, which caused a firestorm amid a disappointing season on Lansdowne Street.<\/p>\n<p>Article Continues BelowWhen the Yankees traded for Chisholm last summer, they asked Gleyber Torres to move from second to third. He similarly denied, but Chisholm agreed to play third for his new club. Now, Torres is gone, and Chisholm started the year at second. But injuries have forced Chisholm to third again this year.<\/p>\n<p>The Yankees and Red Sox now square off at Yankee Stadium for the first time this year. Devers will be at DH again, as he looks to continue his excellent offensive season.<\/p>\n<\/article>\n<hr \/>\n<p>Christopher Hennessy is an MLB associate editor at ClutchPoints, with additional expertise in the NHL and golf. He graduated with a journalism degree from Fordham University in 2022, and he has work experience at Spectrum News One in Albany, New York and with The Hockey Writers as a New York Islanders reporter.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Yankees infielder Jazz Chisholm backs up Red Sox DH Rafael Devers, who refused to play the infield when asked this season.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":59943,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[47,1442,44,40,703],"class_list":["post-59942","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-mlb","tag-boston-red-sox","tag-jazz-chisholm-jr","tag-mlb","tag-new-york-yankees","tag-rafael-devers"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v23.6 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Yankees&#039; Jazz Chisholm Jr weighs in on Rafael Devers position drama - 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=59942\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Yankees&#039; 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