Rafael

Devers

At this point, every MLB team should at least check in on Schwarber after he hit 56 home runs and drove in 132 runs and finished second in NFL MVP voting. With Rafael Devers in town and top prospect Bryce Elridge looking MLB-ready. It seems unlikely that the Giants will land Schwarber.

Devers becomes the first player to appear in 163 games in a single season since Justin Morneau accomplished the feat back in 2008. It’s an interesting trivia nugget with the biggest fantasy takeaway here that the move to DH almost exclusively should continue to keep him healthy as he approaches his early 30’s.

Devers connected on a solo homer off Sonny Gray for his 34th homer of the 2025 campaign. The 28-year-old slugger has now driven in 107 runs in 2025 in his time with the Red Sox and Giants. There were more downs than you usually see from a Devers’ season, but the overall numbers are awfully hard to complain about.

Devers got the Giants to within a run with a solo homer in the fifth, but San Francisco was held off the board for the remainder of the contest. The 28-year-old has homered 33 times in 2025, and 18 of those have come with San Francisco over 85 games. It looks like Devers’ first season with the Giants is going to be a solid — if unspectacular based on expectations — campaign that doesn’t end with the Giants playing in the postseason.

Devers thought the double was gone, and it would have been in 29 ballparks. Alas, he’s a Giant now, so even at 418 feet, it was merely off the wall in right-center. That’s just going to happen from time to time.

Devers opened the scoring with a 416-foot (110.0 mph EV) solo shot off of Michael McGreevy in the opening inning, putting the Giants ahead to stay. He also added an RBI single in the fourth inning that extended the Giants’ lead to 5-0. The 28-year-old slugger finished the night 2-for-4 plus a walk. He’s now hitting .264/.381/.496 with 31 long balls and 99 RBI.

Devers took Kyle Freeland deep for a two-run homer in the first inning. After admiring his towering shot over the right field wall, Freeland had some words for Devers, which was followed by a benches-clearing scuffle that got Freeland, Matt Chapman, and Willy Adames ejected from the game. The two-run blast was Devers’ only hit of the game. It was his third straight game with a homer and 30th on the season to go with 96 RBI and an .874 OPS over 627 plate appearances.

Devers is now one homer short of a 30-homer campaign, and that’ll be the fourth time he reaches that mark if/win he can hit one more roundtripper in September. He’s gone deep 14 times since the trade with the Giants, and that along with a single and walk pushes his slash with San Francisco to .264/.383/.490.

Devers got the party started for the Giants with a solo shot off of Tomoyuki Sugano in the opening inning. He then contributed an RBI single in the third inning that increased their lead to 2-0. The 28-year-old slugger also doubled in the sixth inning and scored on a fielder’s choice off the bat of Luis Matos. With his three-hit afternoon, Devers is now hitting .262/.381/.484 with 28 homers and 93 RBI on the season.

He also scored four runs and drew a walk, but didn’t do much outside of that. The 28-year-old has homered 27 times, and 12 of them have come since the blockbuster trade from Boston. The overall slash of .258/.377/.479 leaves a bit to be desired, but that says more about Devers’ ability than his production in 2025.