Rafael Devers is giving the Giants just enough lately to make the trade conversation a little more interesting.
For most of his time in San Francisco, the former Boston Red Sox star has been a tough watch. Acquired in the middle of the 2025 season, the 29-year-old arrived as a marquee piece, but he hasn’t come close to carrying the offense the way the Giants hoped.
At one point, he was statistically the worst player in baseball in terms of earnings, and Giants fans have also questioned his work ethic. With San Francisco stumbling through some of its worst baseball of 2026, it’s no surprise that cutting ties with the first baseman has become more than just idle chatter.
The problem, of course, is the contract. Devers is going to be hard to move because of the size and length of the deal, and the Giants would almost certainly have to eat part of it.
But he’s at least giving them something to work with. His bat has started to wake up in recent weeks, and Sunday brought another jolt: two solo homers in a 7-6 loss to the Colorado Rockies.
With that kind of stretch, Devers has nudged his line up to .248 with 18 home runs and 47 RBIs. Those aren’t exactly eye-popping numbers, but they’re a lot more respectable than where things stood earlier in the year. If he can get to 21 or 22 homers by the Mid-Summer Classic this month, that would at least signal to other clubs that there’s still some real value there for a stretch run.
And that matters because Devers is still just 29. There’s nothing in the source material suggesting he’s finished, only that things haven’t clicked in San Francisco.
A change of scenery may be all he needs to keep producing, even if the fit in the Bay Area has been rough. Sometimes a star lands in a place where the pieces just don’t line up.
That’s where the market comes in. As a left-handed power bat, Devers would be a major postseason weapon, but his salary narrows the list of possible suitors. A team like the New York Yankees or Los Angeles Dodgers would be the type of high-dollar club capable of taking on that kind of contract and sending back the prospects San Francisco would want.
A trade in 2026 still might not happen. But Devers is at least making the case that he has some encore left in him.
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