Spotrac puts his market value at 12 years, $539 million. ESPN's Jeff Passan also recently had Tucker in his rarefied air of players who could sign $500 million contracts. And if the Cubs are the ones making that happen, it's pretty unlikely they'll then turn around and trade for the roughly quarter of a billion dollars left on Devers' deal.

The argument about this specific drama is which side of the Red Sox team is right, is it Devers, who believes he is being mistreated by constantly being asked to do unordinary things, or is the Red Sox front office correct in believing the team is at its best if Devers moves to first base.

The Boston Red Sox were perfectly justified in asking Rafael Devers to vacate third base for Alex Bregman and become a designated hitter. They are far less justified in asking Devers to switch again,