S.F. Giants President of Baseball Operations Buster Posey “seized the attention of the sports world” on Sunday night, making “the big, bold trade that had been elusive for the Giants for so long” when he acquired DH Rafael Devers from the Red Sox in exchange for P Kyle Harrison, P Jordan Hicks and two minor leaguers. Devers “gives the Giants their most powerful left-handed bat since Barry Bonds." It’s the “kind of aggressive move that Giants fans have been pining for,” and the kind of blockbuster midseason move “that the previous regime failed to make” (S.F. CHRONICLE, 6/15).
The Giants “have been rebuffed in both trade and free agent negotiations over the past decade,” but now they “don’t have to worry about being used as stalking horses come next winter.” Luring an elite bat to S.F. “has proven almost impossible.” And one “just fell into the Giants’ lap” (USA TODAY, 6/15).
The trade also “made a statement to the fanbase and the rest of baseball: The Giants are done acting like anything less than the single big-league team in the richest metro area in America.” The Giants will “take on every penny of what remains on Devers’ contract” -- $250M through 2033 (San Jose MERCURY NEWS, 6/15).
