Following the departure of Xander Bogaerts this offseason, a common concern shared among many for the Red Sox is their lack of top-end talent.
That was reflected in many MLB analysts’ and experts’ top 100 preseason lists. The majority of them only featured one Red Sox player: Rafael Devers.
Devers was the only Red Sox player ranked in ESPN’s top 100 list, but he was ranked pretty highly, coming at No. 20. ESPN’s Joon Lee explained that the contract extension the Red Sox gave Devers over the offseason (10-year, $313.5 million deal) shows the third baseman’s value.