Alex Cora and the Red Sox roster shared their thoughts on Rafael Devers' trade to the Giants ahead of Monday's game against the Mariners.

The win arrived in Boston's first game since the stunning trade of All-Star slugger Rafael Devers to the San Francisco Giants. Starting pitcher Lucas Giolito was credited with the win after throwing six shutout innings.

SEATTLE — Right-handed pitcher Jordan Hicks, who the Red Sox acquired from the Giants in the Rafael Devers trade Sunday, is on the 15-day injured list with inflammation in his right big toe but he should be back fairly soon.

While the Red Sox front office kept reiterating that it was a pure baseball trade, the honest truth is that it was a culture trade. They didn’t believe they could win another championship with Devers. They believed he was the wrong guy to be the centerpiece of the franchise. They didn’t think he would become a leader. So, he is gone.

The move came as a shock to Red Sox fans still salty over the salary dump of Mookie Betts in 2020 – a year after he won the AL MVP – in a trade that yielded little in return. The team also let Xander Bogaerts leave as a free agent before deciding that Devers was the player they were willing to invest in.

The Boston Red Sox issued their first comments following the team's blockbuster trade of Rafael Devers to the San Francisco Giants.

The Boston Red Sox traded Rafael Devers over the weekend and they are just starting to answer questions about both the move and the overall health of the team. According to a new report, Devers was not the only dysfunctional part of the organization, and now people have no choice but to notice.

Boston Red Sox brass on Monday night held a news conference to address the recent surprise and controversial trade of slugger Rafael Devers to the San Francisco Giants. The Red Sox on Sunday dealt Devers to the Giants as the centerpiece of a five-player trade that netted Boston some young talent in return and also put the roughly $250 million left on Devers' contract on San Francisco's books.

The Boston Red Sox shocked the baseball world when they traded Rafael Devers to the San Francisco Giants. David Ortiz thinks Devers is partly to blame.

In layman’s terms for basketball fans, the Rafael Devers trade from the Boston Red Sox to the San Francisco Giants may just be the baseball equivalent of Luka Dončić being shipped to the Los Angeles Lakers at the NBA trade deadline.

After the Red Sox sent shockwaves through MLB on Sunday night by trading cornerstone Rafael Devers to the San Francisco Giants for four players, many people began wondering what could be next for Boston, which has been relieved of Devers’ remaining $255 million salary over the next eight-plus years.