Manny Ramirez Rips The Red Sox For Trading Rafael Devers

Manny Ramirez Rips The Red Sox For Trading Rafael Devers

If you’re an avid reader of this site, you already know how I feel about the Rafael Devers situation. If you’re new around here, come back in a few minutes after you read this. Either way, if you just want the Spark Notes, it turns out Manny Ramirez agrees with me, and you may as well co-sign my name next to everything he just said.

I’ll shut up for now and let Manny do the talking because he couldn’t be more accurate about what’s going on here.

“Devers was humiliated (by the Red Sox). It’s not about pride or ego. I think the team didn’t respect him or communicate with him properly,” Ramirez told MLB reporter Hector Gomez.

“I’m sure they didn’t do that to (Roger) Clemens. I can’t imagine the Yankees telling Judge, ‘Now we’re moving you to catcher.’”

“The Red Sox handled this Devers situation pretty badly. They should have talked to him since the beginning about him moving to a different position and not just drop that on him during spring training,” Ramirez told Gomez, as translated by Sporting News.

“It was wrong by the organization and shows the lack of the experience from the GM and the lack of a clear guide within the team. They should have never treated Devers that way.”

I Miss Manny Ramirez

Bingo. Don’t blame the player. Poor leadership from the top, and it shows, or else stuff like this wouldn’t happen.

And here’s the hidden part that Manny hit on that I don’t think anyone else is talking about. Devers needed a sidekick, not a pigeon-hole DH role. Manny being Manny would have happened far more often if Ortiz weren’t on the team. This team never got Devers the right-handed alpha next to him in the lineup, and that lack of team-building fortitude had its own set of consequences.

“Devers needed to have people advising him there on the team. I’m telling you this because I really wasn’t well, and David [Ortiz] and Pedro [Martinez] were fighting with me to advise me,” Ramirez told Gomez. “But I was so bad, that I never let them advise me. And David Ortiz, look how he’s come out on top in Boston. He let himself be advised. Most Latinos don’t come out on good terms with their teams.”

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