If the Red Sox hope to find their stride, they'll need Devers in the lineup every day. He's probably not going to get there by fighting through pain in mid-April.
"I'm shooting for (a) Monday (return). He's shooting for tomorrow," Cora told reporters at Fenway Park on Saturday. So we'll have a debate about that. I just want to make sure he's OK. He's too important for us.
Devers hasn't been in the lineup since Wednesday, and it's shown. The Red Sox have scored a grand total of four runs across his two-game absence, dropping both games as he was unavailable to come off the bench.
"It's a marathon, not a sprint, which is what the Red Sox are trying to keep at the forefront of Devers' mind.
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