LIVE: Devers, Red Sox discuss long-term extension

Watch a reside news convention from Fenway Park, the place third baseman Rafael Devers is discussing his extension.

Signed by Boston at 16 years previous on Aug. 9, 2013, Devers made his Major League debut in July 2017 at 20 years previous and served because the Red Sox’s Opening Day starter at third base in every of the subsequent 5 seasons (2018-22). The 2033 season can be his seventeenth with the Red Sox; the one gamers to seem in at the very least one recreation for the Red Sox in 15 or extra seasons are Carl Yastrzemski (23), Dwight Evans (19), Ted Williams (19), Tim Wakefield (17), Jim Rice (16), and Jason Varitek (15).

Devers, 26, completed within the high 15 in American League Most Valuable Player voting in 2019 (twelfth), 2021 (eleventh), and 2022 (14th). A 2021 Silver Slugger Award winner, he was the AL’s beginning third baseman within the 2021 and 2022 All-Star Games.