Simply sooner or later after making historical past by turning into the primary participant in MLB historical past to strike out 10 occasions within the first three video games of the season, Rafael Devers topped himself by turning into the primary participant in MLB historical past to strike out 12 occasions within the first 4 video games of the season. A brand new document, huzzah! Issues clearly aren’t nice within the batters field for Raffy, however earlier than you counsel Rusneying him, know that the document Devers broke had been collectively held by Brent Rooker, who struck out 11 occasions within the first 4 video games final season, solely to finish up ending tenth within the AL MVP balloting. (Jon Couture, Boston Globe)
You in fact need to surprise if being moved completely to DH is having some adverse psychological impact on Raffy. However being moved completely to the bullpen doesn’t appear to be a problem for Garrett Whitlock. (Peter Abraham, Boston Globe)
The bullpen was nice within the opening collection towards the Texas Rangers. But when it ever begins to falter, there’s a reliever down in Worcester who has been within the Red Sox group for a very long time, and it appears like this may lastly the be the yr he makes his debut. (Christopher Smith, MassLive)
With Whitlock shifting to the pen full-time, that opened up some depth rotation spots. Richard Fitts did greater than sufficient to earn a kind of in spring coaching and appeared mighty nice in his first huge league begin of the season yesterday — till his ultimate inning. (Chris Cotillo, MassLive)
However the pitchers had been hardly accountable for the collection loss. The truth that Wilyer Abreu and Kristian Campbell are the one hitters offering any type of spark is the larger situation. (Jen McCaffrey, The Athletic)
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