The never-ending saga that is the Rafael Devers trade from the Red Sox to the Giants has taken yet another turn.
After Red Sox play-by-play announcer Will Flemming revealed earlier this week that Devers stood up Giants legend Will Clark for a workout at first base last month, Clark—who didn't take offense to the DH's decision to no-show—has responded.
On his podcast with Eric Byrnes, Clark shed some light on the conversation he had with Flemming during the Sox's road trip to San Francisco. Spoiler alert: he doesn't sound too thrilled about how the story got out.
"I'm standing out there," Clark began. "[And Giants announcer] Dave Flemming actually introduces me to his brother, Will Flemming, who is one of the Red Sox radio/TV guys, I guess. And so now he goes on some podcast … and blows this thing out of f— proportion … and here we go."
"I just gotta tell you right now, this is a bunch of bulls—," he continued. "That's first off. Second off … me and Raffy are fine, I'm gonna work with him whenever I get around to first base and all that. And Will Flemming? You can go f— off, mother f—er. You wanna go take a conversation that we're having and then blow it out of proportion because you're a f—ing East Coast piece of s— reporter? F— off. And so other than that, I'm cool!"
Noted.
Devers was traded to San Francisco in mid-June in exchange for pitchers Jordan Hicks, Kyle Harrison, Jose Bello and outfielder James Tibbs III.
In 22 games since joining the Giants, the three-time All-Star—who has still only DH'd in The Bay—is slashing .225/.344/.363 with just two home runs and 9 RBIs, and has struck out 31 times.
Maybe one day he and Clark will get to take grounders together at first base.