Jarren Duran's response to Rafael Devers trade is layered in Red Sox complication

The Boston Red Sox's front office was met with disillusionment and vitriol from fans after the trade of Rafael Devers to the San Francisco Giants. In a sense, the writing had been on the wall after Devers' public feud with team leadership over his position change. But nobody thought it would go down quite like this.

In an interview with Rob Bradford on WEEI, Red Sox outfielder Jarren Duran shared how he found out that Devers had been traded on the team plane, and his perspective on the events that unfolded was... interesting.

"I don't have Twitter," Duran said. "So I just kind of saw [Devers] get off the plane and just kind of felt like, 'No way.' But like I said, it's Rafael Devers. I was just shocked to see him leave the plane, but I napped most of the plane so I didn't really have time to think about it."

Jarren Duran's response to Rafael Devers trade is layered in Red Sox complication

When asked what the trade meant for the Red Sox moving forward, Duran seemed to feel that the team would be largely unaffected – which, frankly, is almost worse than Craig Breslow saying that he anticipated the Red Sox would win more games without Devers than they would with him.

"I mean, I trust everybody we have now and we can't let one little thing deter what we've got going so far," Duran said. "I mean, yeah, he is a great player, but at the end of the day, it's just one guy. So, we've got 25 others that were pulling on the same line to win those series. So, we've got to think about it like that as a team."

Devers isn't "just one guy," though. He was the last remaining member of the 2018 World Series team and a pillar of the franchise who was signed through 2033. Could Duran's perceived indifference to the matter be an indicator that Devers wasn't well-liked in the clubhouse? Perhaps. But there is another, arguably more plausible explanation as to why Duran responded the way he did.

For starters, it would not be at all surprising if Duran — a guy who has been the subject of nonstop trade rumors — were engaging in some self-preservation tactics. He saw what happened to Devers when he expressed public disapproval of one of the front office's decisions, so who's to say he wouldn't suffer the same fate?

Maybe Duran — and the rest of the Red Sox's clubhouse, for that matter — really didn't care for Devers as a teammate. Or maybe the Devers trade sent them a message that no one is safe, so they had better fall in line and be good soldiers in Breslow's army if they don't want to be the next guys to get shipped out of town.

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