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00:00All right, so let's listen to Rafi Devers.
00:04Yeah, so, of course, Bregman signs.
00:07They run to Devers.
00:08They saw Bregman taking ground balls at third.
00:11They go to Devers.
00:12Are you willing to do anything else besides third base?
00:16Let's see what he says.
00:18So, are you saying if they ask you to D.H.,
00:20you're willing to do it?
00:21No.
00:25Can you expand on that?
00:28I played third.
00:29What's there to expand on?
00:31I mean, it's over.
00:32I played third.
00:33He's not doing it.
00:34I played third.
00:35Now, look, I think that some, this is also tough.
00:37You saw he's sitting there with the translator,
00:39and then after that, it starts ramping
00:41through the translator, more of the explanations.
00:44But the story remains the same.
00:47The guy don't want to play anywhere else.
00:49He wants to play third base.
00:51He was told by Chaim Blum, when he resigned,
00:54he'd be the third baseman.
00:55Problem is, as Alex Gore is about to tell you,
00:58Chaim Blum ain't there anymore.
01:00He don't run the Red Sox.
01:02The other guy runs them now, Breslau.
01:04Breslau runs the Sox, and so does Alex Gore.
01:07He said when he signed the long-term extension
01:10that you guys said that he'd be the third baseman long-term.
01:13Do you think the relationship is strained right now?
01:15He doesn't seem happy that, like,
01:17the team has gone back on their word.
01:20It's strange between different people here, right?
01:24There's a different leader here, so, you know,
01:26Chaim is in St. Louis right now.
01:29Okay, so let's get real here for a second.
01:33I don't deny that Alex Bregman is a good player,
01:37and he's been on a really good team,
01:41winning chips and division titles
01:44and being in the playoffs every year.
01:46But I also, I question the deal that he got.
01:53I don't think he's worth that anymore.
01:55I think he's old, and I think Devers is a better player,
01:59and I think he's a bigger hitter,
02:02and that's all there is to it.
02:04Now, you want to move him to DH,
02:06and he wants to play third base, and he's not having it,
02:09and you're going to choose this old white guy
02:12over that badass Devers?
02:14You must be drunk.
02:16Honestly, Mike, you have to admit
02:19that Devers is a better player, and he's a bigger hitter,
02:23bigger home-run hitter, everything else.
02:25I won't deny Bregman can bag it,
02:27and I won't deny that he's a good player,
02:30but I think his best years are over.
02:33Nobody else wanted him.
02:35Nobody wanted him.
02:37I mean, he had offers.
02:38They were all crappy offers.
02:41Excuse me.
02:43Teams wanted him, and they offered him crappy numbers
02:46because he's old.
02:48That's it.
02:49What did he do, three years at $120 million?
02:52Because no one thinks he's going to be playing baseball
02:55in four years.
02:58I think that there's no question,
03:00if you ask me who do I not want to face in a big spot,
03:05game on the line, it's Devers.
03:07Now, they're talking more about things like, you know,
03:11him at third base, defensively, athletically, you know,
03:15Bregman's better than him defensively, whatever.
03:18I want to keep that guy happy if he was my third base,
03:21but here's the real problem that it causes.
03:24It's the first week of camp,
03:26and I'm sure maybe no one will remember this stuff
03:29when you actually start playing real games,
03:31but it causes a problem all around camp
03:34because what did I see today? This was all yesterday.
03:36Then what did the reporters do today?
03:37Remember, this is Boston.
03:39Boston, Philly, New York.
03:41They start asking everybody else.
03:43They start asking everybody else.
03:44So the first baseman today, Tristan Kass, you know,
03:46they ask him, and what does he say?
03:48Oh, you know, Rafi should be the third baseman.
03:51You know, so now you're asking, you guys picking sides.
03:53Most won't. Most are smart and will say,
03:57well, I'll let the manager figure that out,
03:58but, like, this guy Kass goes,
04:00yeah, you know, Rafi should be the third baseman.
04:02You know, that's his spot.
04:04So now you've got other guys on the team being asked about it,
04:07and it becomes a problem.
04:09So now Bregman's new. He's probably like,
04:11you know, screw this guy.
04:12You don't like me, this guy at first base?
04:14So it just causes diversion in the locker room
04:17that you don't need.
04:20Why can't he play? Why can't he play second base?
04:31Oh, my God.
04:33What they should do is beat the shack out of that guy
04:36and stuff him in the back of a car.