{"id":672503,"date":"2026-04-10T14:11:11","date_gmt":"2026-04-10T14:11:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/672503\/"},"modified":"2026-04-10T14:11:11","modified_gmt":"2026-04-10T14:11:11","slug":"which-domino-of-the-rafael-devers-trade-will-hold-up-worst","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/672503\/","title":{"rendered":"Which domino of the Rafael Devers trade will hold up worst?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1nfb3k4i _16w9vov1 _16w9vov0 ls9zuh1\">With former Red Sox great Dustin May taking the mound for the St. Louis Cardinals against his former team this evening (how many cheesy dad jokes will there be about the \u201cEarly May\u201d pitching matchup this evening?), it got me thinking about the levels of the Rafael Devers fallout. Even if you were in favor of dumping Devers\u2019 <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/JeffPassan\/status\/1934414583025779018\" rel=\"nofollow\">\u201cunderwater\u201d contract<\/a>, or felt that his decision not to \u201c<a href=\"https:\/\/www.boston.com\/sports\/boston-red-sox\/2026\/02\/16\/boston-red-sox-rafael-devers-mlb-baseball-tom-werner-trade-giants\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">just pick up a glove<\/a>\u201d warranted a trade, it might be the subsequent moves that are more bothersome.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1nfb3k4i _16w9vov1 _16w9vov0 ls9zuh1\">The Red Sox received pitchers Kyle Harrison and Jordan Hicks, outfield prospect James Tibbs III, and pitching prospect Jose Bello in the deal. The only player who remains with the franchise is Bello, a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.fangraphs.com\/players\/jose-bello\/sa3021530\/stats\/pitching\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">35 FV prospect<\/a> who is in A-ball.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1nfb3k4i _16w9vov1 _16w9vov0 ls9zuh1\">Harrison was sent to Milwaukee as part of the Caleb Durbin deal. He has opened the season with two strong starts (1-0, 2,61) with 14 strikeouts in 10 1\/3 innings. <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/CyrtHogg\/status\/2029199200580452513\" rel=\"nofollow\">According to Brewers reporter<\/a> Curt Hogg, \u201cThe Red Sox tried teaching him a new kick changeup last year, but Kyle Harrison couldn\u2019t ever figure out. Fast forward to one grip suggestion from an old Giants teammate and trade to the Brewers later, and he\u2019s suddenly discovered a new, nasty pitch.\u201d Wonderful.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1nfb3k4i _16w9vov1 _16w9vov0 ls9zuh1\">Tibbs only played 30 games at Portland before being flipped to the Dodgers for five subpar starts from the aforementioned Dustin May. Tibbs had a .900 OPS at Double-A for them last year, and now, albeit in the launching pad Pacific Coast League, he has seven bombs in twelve games, good for a 1.376 OPS and a 252 wRC+ at Triple-A.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1nfb3k4i _16w9vov1 _16w9vov0 ls9zuh1\">Jordan Hicks had an 8.20 ERA for Boston in 21 games. There\u2019s a strong argument to be made that he was the worst relief pitcher the team has employed for that many outings in this century. He was moved to the White Sox this winter, and the team had to attach prospect David Sandlin just to get rid of the contract. But not all of the contract. The Red Sox are still paying Hicks $4M this year and next. Hicks has a 7.94 ERA with Chicago and a negative-11.1 K-BB% in six outings.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1nfb3k4i _16w9vov1 _16w9vov0 ls9zuh1\">Which of these things bothers you most: Devers, Harrison, Tibbs, or Hicks? Sound off in the comments, and be good to each other.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"With former Red Sox great Dustin May taking the mound for the St. Louis Cardinals against his former&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":672504,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2403],"tags":[5,160,4,79145,673,67,4311,4310],"class_list":{"0":"post-672503","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-st-louis-cardinals","8":"tag-baseball","9":"tag-cardinals","10":"tag-mlb","11":"tag-red-sox-discussion","12":"tag-st-louis","13":"tag-st-louis-cardinals","14":"tag-stlouis","15":"tag-stlouiscardinals"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@mlb\/116380819140648131","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/672503","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=672503"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/672503\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/672504"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=672503"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=672503"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=672503"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}