You've just been traded for one of the 10 or so best hitters in all of baseball, but you're joining a team that still says it wants to make the playoffs. You're probably going to join the rotation eventually,

This references the infamous “Curse of the Bambino,” which plagued the Red Sox after trading Babe Ruth to the New York Yankees after the 1919 season. In the following years, Ruth, who had already started building himself into a legend during the Dead Ball Era, exploded in popularity as soon as the Live Ball Era began the very next year.

Column: Craig Breslow claimed Rafael Devers didn’t fit the culture the Red Sox are trying to create. Here’s why it’s hypocritical: