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By Aaliyan Mohammed
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The Boston Red Sox signed Alex Bregman to a three-year, $120 million deal just before spring training. The move indicated Rafael Devers could be headed for a position change, but Devers took a hard stance on playing third base when speaking to reporters at the start of spring training.
"Third base is my position," Devers told reporters through an interpreter. "It's what I play. I don't know what their plans are. We had a conversation. I made it clear on what my desires were. Whatever happens from here, I don't know."
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He doubled down on his comments on Tuesday, according to MassLive's Chris Cotillo. Devers' teammate Lucas Giolito gave his thoughts on the third baseman's comments on Thursday's episode of "Baseball Isn't Boring."
"Like, we are employees," Giolito said. "We can have preferences. Everyone's allowed to have preferences. Everyone's allowed to have an opinion. But at the end of the day, we are employees. You know, we get paid to go out on the field and do what we're supposed to do. So if they tell somebody, oh, you're playing here, you're playing here, all right, at the end of the day, you know, whatever helps the team win. So I don't know, man. I just, I was like kind of astounded when, you know, I saw like what (Devers) said, and, you know, I was just kind of like laughing."
Giolito was clearly shocked by Devers' comments but went on to say the comments have not changed anything in the clubhouse and "no one" in the clubhouse cares too much about it.
Bregman, who is caught in the crossfire of Devers' comments, seemed to echo Giolito's comments.
"I'm super excited to just be (Devers') teammate," Bregman told reporters according to ESPN. "He's a great player. I think everybody in this clubhouse is worried about winning, and whatever it takes to help the team win -- that's all I'm focused on. I'll play wherever (Alex Cora) tells me to play."
Regardless of how the Red Sox infield looks on opening day, Devers and Bregman will both be key in deciding how far the team goes.
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