Red Sox designated hitter Rafael Devers said he’s not willing to play first base after a season-ending injury to Triston Casas.
Devers was approached by Red Sox chief baseball officer Craig Breslow about moving over to first base, but the 28-year-old doesn’t have any interest, especially after the team moved him from third to DH and told him to “put away my glove.”
“I know I’m a ballplayer, but at the same time, they can’t expect me to play every single position out there,” Devers said through a translator, according to the Boston Globe. “In spring training, they talked to me and basically told me to put away my glove, that I wasn’t going to play any other position but DH.
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