{"id":659260,"date":"2026-04-02T18:05:15","date_gmt":"2026-04-02T18:05:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/659260\/"},"modified":"2026-04-02T18:05:15","modified_gmt":"2026-04-02T18:05:15","slug":"giants-red-sox-facing-the-curse-of-rafael-devers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/659260\/","title":{"rendered":"Giants, Red Sox facing the &#8216;Curse of Rafael Devers&#8217;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The <a href=\"https:\/\/www.sportingnews.com\/us\/mlb\/boston-red-sox\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Boston Red Sox<\/a> traded Rafael Devers to the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.sportingnews.com\/us\/mlb\/san-francisco-giants\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">San Francisco Giants<\/a> almost a year ago.<\/p>\n<p>And at the moment, both teams are sputtering.<\/p>\n<p>The Giants rank last in baseball in runs scored through April 1, with 14.<\/p>\n<p>In second-to-last place? The Red Sox, with 17.<\/p>\n<p>One popular baseball account on X has called it &#8216;The Curse of Rafael Devers&#8217;:<\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">The only team that has scored fewer runs than the Red Sox this season (17) is the Giants (14).<\/p>\n<p>The Curse of Rafael Devers?<\/p>\n<p>\u2014 nugget chef (@jayhaykid) <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/jayhaykid\/status\/2039730872287408303?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">April 2, 2026<\/a><\/p>\n<p>MORE:\u00a0<a target=\"\" href=\"https:\/\/www.sportingnews.com\/us\/mlb\/kansas-city-royals\/news\/terrance-gore-son-honors-dad-perfect-first-pitch-royals-home-opener\/0d6f0212372e3fa358873a70\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Terrance Gore&#8217;s son honors dad with perfect first pitch<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Of course, it&#8217;s much too simplistic to just point this to being a Devers thing.<\/p>\n<p>For the Giants, he&#8217;s just one spot in a lineup of nine guys who are essentially all scuffling out of the gates this season.<\/p>\n<p>The Red Sox may miss Devers, to an extent, but they&#8217;ve got a lot of strong bats, too. Maybe more costly for them is that they didn&#8217;t bring Alex Bregman back in the offseason, which has led to trade acquisition Caleb Durbin playing third base &#8212; and <a target=\"\" href=\"https:\/\/www.sportingnews.com\/us\/mlb\/boston-red-sox\/news\/caleb-durbin-ever-going-get-hit-red-sox-trade-not-aging-well-so-far\/060beacf6bc919d6ad95b354\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Durbin doesn&#8217;t have a single hit yet this season<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Both teams were expected to contend toward the top of their respective divisions this season, so the lack of run scoring is certainly a concern.<\/p>\n<p>Is it Devers&#8217; fault? Check back in six months. If the curse is strong enough, maybe it will continue.<\/p>\n<p>More MLB news:<\/p>\n<p>                            <script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Boston Red Sox traded Rafael Devers to the San Francisco Giants almost a year ago. And at&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":659261,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[2408],"tags":[5,162,4,378,66,4343,4340,4344,4341,4342],"class_list":{"0":"post-659260","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-san-francisco-giants","8":"tag-baseball","9":"tag-giants","10":"tag-mlb","11":"tag-san-francisco","12":"tag-san-francisco-giants","13":"tag-sanfrancisco","14":"tag-sanfranciscogiants","15":"tag-sf","16":"tag-sf-giants","17":"tag-sfgiants"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@mlb\/116336441857149188","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/659260","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=659260"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/659260\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/659261"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=659260"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=659260"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=659260"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}