In my head, Xander Bogaerts and Rafael Devers, the former almost certainly becoming a free agent this coming offseason, and the latter hitting the market the next, are as good as gone. The writing is on the wall and I can read it, and even if I didn’t want to I could guess what it said. Something like, “Chaim Bloom doesn’t pay market price for talent,” am I right?
It sucks. But also it’ll stop sucking soon. It’ll stop soon because Mookie Betts, Bogaerts and Devers are the holdovers from another era, and this one is set to be vastly different, going forward.