Kurtenbach: Buster Posey’s big Rafael Devers trade is a statement — the SF Giants are done playing second fiddle

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What makes the 2025 Giants Buster Posey’s team? Posey’s bold, brash, and perhaps even reckless trade for three-time All-Star slugger Rafael Devers on Sunday is a big black-and-orange stamp from the new director of baseball operations on the Giants organization. The trade also made a statement to the fanbase and the rest of baseball: The Giants are done acting like anything less than the single big-league team in the richest metro area in America. After years of pushing fiscal prudence and not earnestly trying to keep up with the Joneses, Posey is done pretending anything else but the team in blue matters.

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