Following a stunning blockbuster trade, Rafael Devers will be introduced as a member of the San Francisco Giants on Tuesday afternoon.
The press conference will be held at Oracle Park in San Francisco at 5:30 p.m. EST (2:30 p.m. PST) and will feature a panel of Giants chairman Greg Johnson, president of baseball operations Buster Posey, general manager Zack Minasian, manager Bob Melvin, and of course, Devers himself.
If Red Sox fans want to tune in, the press conference will be live streamed on SFGiants.com as well as the San Francisco Giants’ YouTube channel.
Boston traded Devers to San Francisco on Sunday night for pitchers Jordan Hicks and Kyle Harrison and prospects James Tibbs and Jose Bello.
The Red Sox and Devers endured a friction-filled 2025, beginning with the signing of Alex Bregman after assurances that Devers would start at third base, and crescendoing with the All-Star’s unwillingness to play either first base or third base after injury issues hit the team.
“In the end, it’s pretty clear we couldn’t find alignment with Raffy,” CEO Sam Kennedy said Monday night. “It’s the truth. We all worked at it over the last several months going back to the offseason, starting with Alex Cora and Craig (Breslow) and the staff, then up to me and all the way up to John Henry. We had a different vision from him, moving forward, than he did. We couldn’t get there. We couldn’t find alignment. We reached that inflection point and made the decision to make a big move.
“In terms of what was missing, it just was that alignment in terms of what we felt we needed from him that would be in the absolute best interest of the ball-club,” Kennedy said. “That’s a non-starter for us. We have to have that. We couldn’t get there… maybe we need to look back at things we could handle better. But it’s definitely a two-way street. We didn’t get to the alignment we needed in the best interest of the Boston Red Sox, so we made the decision that we made.”