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I asked the same question of the heads of baseball operations for the Giants (Farhan Zaidi) and the Red Sox (Chaim Bloom) before this season:

Basically, if there were a dispersal draft and I had the first pick and took Logan Webb off the Giants and Rafael Devers off the Red Sox, who would each executive take next off of their roster.

Zaidi pondered and eventually wondered if it would be Michael Conforto, who didn’t play last season and was new to San Francisco. Bloom (who was relieved of his duties last week) did not name a player, but suggested that the club had several up-and-comers who he anticipated being above-average players.

This was essentially a question to underscore what I perceived — that there was an extreme dropoff from their best player to their second-best player not befitting large-market clubs. As things stand currently, Webb does indeed lead San Francisco in Wins Above Replacement (Baseball Reference) and Devers the same for Boston.

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