The Windup Newsletter ⚾ | This is The Athletic’s MLB newsletter. Sign up here to receive The Windup directly in your inbox.When you have a chance to show ‘em what they missed out on, you can’t do much better than what Kyle Harrison did last night. Plus: Jo Adell’s Jose Canseco moment, the Braves and Carlos Carrasco are redefining the player-team relationship and a hypothetical that could have changed everything in Pittsburgh. I’m Levi Weaver — welcome to The Windup!Revenge: Harrison shows off against former teamIt was not yet a year ago — June 15, 2025, to be exact — when Kyle Harrison was traded for the first time. He was warming up in the bullpen, preparing to start that night’s game, when the deal went down — the Giants traded Harrison, Jordan Hicks, James Tibbs III and Jose Bello to the Red Sox in exchange for Rafael Devers. From Andrew Baggarly’s 2025 story:“Teammates described nobody as more stunned than Harrison, a Concord (Calif.) De La Salle High alum who went from preparing to face the Dodgers to contemplating a cross-country change of scenery. Harrison stayed in the clubhouse till the end of the game and (Giants manager Bob) Melvin was able to take him aside for a brief conversation.”That trade hasn’t really worked out for anyone. Coming off a stretch in which Devers received MVP votes in five of the previous six seasons, he’s been worth 2.1 bWAR for the Giants since the trade.But in Boston, it has gone so much worse. Here’s where every player the Red Sox got for Devers is now:
Kyle Harrison won *that* trade. Plus: You gotta see Jo Adell’s Jose Canseco moment
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