The Boston Red Sox have one of the most passionate fan bases in all of sports, let alone MLB. With the way the franchise's legends speak about the organization to this day, it is clear that they feel the same as the fans who cheered them on over the years.
Add Kevin Millar to the long list of former Red Sox standouts to share his opinion on Rafael Devers, now that the player who once looked to be a cornerstone of the future in Boston was shipped to the San Francisco Giants earlier this season.
During a recent appearance on the Foul Territory Podcast, Millar was quick to point out the struggles that the Red Sox went through when Devers was batting in the heart of their lineup before proclaiming that Boston is a better team without him than they were with him.
“Players don’t win championships. Teams win championships.”
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Kevin Millar says the Red Sox are a better team without Rafael Devers. pic.twitter.com/7rO9AOcFyY
Red Sox Legend Kevin Millar Piles on Rafael Devers Long After Departure
We are about to enter the all-important month of September, and the Red Sox are in the thick of the race in the AL East. Despite all of that being the case, Millar is still fixated on Devers even though he hasn't suited up for Boston since June. As you can see from the clip above, Millar pointed out that it is teams that win championships, not individual players, when discussing Devers.
"Players don't win championships. Teams win championships," Millar said, via Jackson Roberts of Red Sox on SI. "End of story. You need good players, but everybody's good in the big leagues. I don't care who you are."
Millar didn't stop there, though. He pulled the receipts out of his wallet and touched on the struggles that the Red Sox endured for the years leading up to the trade that shipped the $313.5 million man to the NL West.
"They were in last place, what, three out of four years when he was hitting third? And I'm not putting this all on Devers, by the way, I'm just giving you examples of factual stuff," Millar continued. He is a great player, but this year, something happened. Whether he got bummed out with ownership, whether the Bregman thing wasn't communicated to him, I get all that."
Nothing Millar said in the clip above is incorrect. Even the best players cannot win a World Series on their own. Boston also had struggled mightily as a team with Devers as their big bat at the top of the lineup.
Fans and media can spend time throwing Devers under the bus until the cows come home. That is their right. The hope must be that the players donning Red Sox uniforms are focused on the goals ahead of them rather than on a player who is no longer part of the equation.