What does the Rafael Devers trade say about the state of the Red Sox? That and more reader questions answered in this week's mailbag.

Rafael Devers said he knew immediately after hitting the first home run of his San Francisco Giants career on Saturday against his former teammates on the Boston Red Sox that the ball was going out of Oracle Park.

It hard to lose a guy like Raffy," Trevor Story said. "But those [front office] guys are smart and they have their way of doing things. I’m curious to see what they do.”