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BOSTON RED SOX
Rafael Devers
USA TODAY
BALTIMORE — It is barely April, and we’re still in the throes of Panic Season around Major League Baseball, when flailing superstars and slumping teams manage to set off alarm bells even as their sample sizes remain astoundingly small.
Yet for as much as players and fans and managers are conditioned not to assign undue import to the start of a season, there’s never been a five-game start as astounding – statistically, and circumstantially – as Rafael Devers’ grim 2025 beginning.