Devers largely stuck to his line about not wanting to discuss his final days in Boston, but he didn’t hide how pleased he was with the outcome.

Xander Bogaerts was surprised, like many in the baseball world, when he found out his former teammate Rafael Devers was headed out west.

If the buzzword of Monday evening’s post-trade videoconference with Red Sox president Sam Kennedy and chief baseball officer Craig Breslow was “alignment,” then the theme of Rafael Devers’ media