Rafael Devers keeps making the Giants’ season easier to explain and harder to ignore.
Even with San Francisco out of the race, Devers is putting together the kind of run that demands attention. He crushed two home runs in Saturday’s 9-5 win over the New York Mets, pushing his season total to 35. The night before, he went 3-for-4 with a homer, two doubles and five RBI.
That kind of production has been coming in waves lately. Over his last seven games, Devers is hitting .375/.516/.1.208 with six home runs and 13 RBI. Stretch that out to the last 15 games, and he’s at .382/.485/.927 with nine homers and 21 RBI.
But the bigger picture is even more striking. Through Saturday, the 29-year-old left-handed hitter is up to 35 home runs, 34 doubles, 91 RBI and 85 runs scored, while batting .257/.338/.518 with an .856 OPS.
That overall line gets dinged by a slow April, but the numbers since May tell a much louder story. In 112 games, Devers has hit .273/.363/.586 with a .949 OPS. He’s launched 33 of his 35 homers since the calendar flipped to May.
Baseball is Dead Podcast reported on X Devers numbers since May.
Rafael Devers since May 1st:112 Games418 AB.273/.363/.586/.94933 HR30 2B80 RBI157 wRC+2nd-most homers in baseball over that stretch. Tied for the lead in 2B with Bryan Reynolds. 3rd in SLG. 3rd in wRC+. 3rd in RBI. pic.twitter.com/HK4AbrdEEC
Even the last 30 games have looked like a middle-of-the-order force at full throttle. Devers is hitting .300/.403/.691 with 12 home runs and 29 RBI over that span.
That matters because the Giants didn’t trade for him from the Boston Red Sox in June of 2025 just to get another decent bat in the lineup. They wanted a difference-maker in the heart of the order, someone who could change games with one swing and bring real power to the middle of the lineup.
The rest of the season around him hasn’t gone the way anyone in San Francisco wanted. The Giants have zero chance of being seen in the postseason.
But Devers has handled his part, and then some. He looks exactly like the player they were trying to get - and, honestly, maybe even better.
His 35 home runs already match his 2025 total, and he’s now only three shy of the career-high 38 he set in 2021.
Saturday’s outburst also put him in rare Giants company. Devers joined Willie Mays and Barry Bonds as the only Giants to post at least six home runs and seven walks over a six-game span.
Those comparisons carry weight, but the real story is simpler than that: Devers has been producing while everything around him has been collapsing. Night after night, he’s kept hitting.
Nothing the Giants do over the next few weeks will change how the 2026 season is remembered. Devers, though, can shape what comes next. He’s 29, he’s under a long-term contract, and he’s not just drifting through a lost year.
There are a lot of issues San Francisco has to sort out before Opening Day 2027. Rafael Devers isn’t one of them.
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