The Sunday shockwaves were natural for the Red Sox as they watched star slugger Rafael Devers get pulled off the team flight before takeoff after being traded to the Giants. What was more important to manager Alex Cora was the Monday reaction.

Boone drops perfect reaction after Devers trade and Yankees fans relate originally appeared on Athlon Sports. When ESPN analyst Eduardo Perez texted his old friend Aaron Boone to tell him that Boston Red Sox slugger Rafael Devers had been traded to the San Francisco Giants, he had to laugh at the response. .

Sweeping the Yankees was only the second biggest piece of Boston Red Sox news this weekend. In a stunner, the Red Sox have traded star slugger Rafael Devers to the San Francisco Giants in a rare mid-June blockbuster.

Rafael Devers … is a Giant? The Red Sox just … sent him away? This is the sort of deal that you don’t really see that much in baseball anymore: It almost feels like more of an NBA trade, doesn’t it? It sure had the shock of one.