“It shocked the hell out of me,” agreed Red Sox reliever Liam Hendriks. “I was on the couch at home because I didn’t go on that trip, and I went, ‘Oh, [expletive]!’ I thought it was a parody.”

The Red Sox started winning after trading a star player. Fans still aren't buying it. It would be neat — and perhaps too neat — to point to the Boston Red Sox’ trade of disgruntled three-time All-Star Rafael Devers to the San Francisco Giants in June as the moment the team turned its season around.

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