The Sunday shockwaves were natural for the Red Sox as they watched star slugger Rafael Devers get pulled off the team flight before takeoff after being traded to the Giants. What was more important to manager Alex Cora was the Monday reaction.

"We were all excited. We just swept the Yankees. We love our team and instead of being excited, I'm devastated," a fan told WBZ. "It's wild. We have traded Mookie Betts and Devers in the last five years. Our two best players and we got, essentially, nothing in return for either of them."

Boone drops perfect reaction after Devers trade and Yankees fans relate originally appeared on Athlon Sports. When ESPN analyst Eduardo Perez texted his old friend Aaron Boone to tell him that Boston Red Sox slugger Rafael Devers had been traded to the San Francisco Giants, he had to laugh at the response. .

Willy Adames is thrilled to see former Red Sox slugger Rafael Devers come to Giants in blockbuster trade that should fortify lineup

Rafael Devers … is a Giant? The Red Sox just … sent him away? This is the sort of deal that you don’t really see that much in baseball anymore: It almost feels like more of an NBA trade, doesn’t it? It sure had the shock of one.

Sweeping the Yankees was only the second biggest piece of Boston Red Sox news this weekend. In a stunner, the Red Sox have traded star slugger Rafael Devers to the San Francisco Giants in a rare mid-June blockbuster.