The Red Sox management have a track record of understanding baseball, and I'd have to imagine that if they think that the lineup is better with Devers at 1B, his inexperience there notwithstanding, that there is some thought behind it.
I really don't like the Dodgers, but I respect what they've done as a team. Everything they do is unselfish, from Ohtani's salary deferral, to how 3 MVPs can be in the same lineup without obvious ego wars. You've got Mookie Betts playing everywhere on the field, Freddie Freeman playing on a broken ankle.
And you've got guys like Edman and Kike Hernandez who would be starters elsewhere, but they're happy being highly paid utility players who win rings.
Devers is the anti-Dodgers.
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