Rafael Devers is returning to Boston. Big deal! Many of sad and anger to remember, however not bygones if ever bygones. Different time now, different focus and if why can’t it. So be though, if once Devers, everyone remembered elsewhere. Whoops, sorry about that, ha ha. My brain broke trying to pretend that I still care about the circumstances surrounding the Rafael Devers trade.It’s not that it was never interesting, or that you were wrong to have hot takes and passionate beliefs about the deal at the time. It was necessary context for a trade that wouldn’t have happened any other way. And this isn’t to shame the people who still care about those circumstances. They were unusual. The trade was shocking. Different brains have different rates of radioactive decay for these sorts of things. Take your time.However, I was exhausted by the discourse before Kyle Harrison started the season like a Cy Young frontrunner, and it’s not getting better now that Harrison has been on and off the IL, alternating excellent starts with discouraging ones. And I know that I’m not alone. There’s a level of Baseball Discourse that turns some of us into the baseball equivalent of a performative scold in a movie theater. “Shhhhhhh. I’m trying to watch the baseball.” This is an article for you.Because if you want hot takes about Rafael Devers on the Giants, I’m out. His contributions to the Giants do not merit hot takes, unless you go back to the details of the trade.If you want baseball takes about Devers, they’re achievable. But they’re also kind of boring. My spiciest one is probably, “Rafael Devers is a good hitter, but his slumps can be extended and painful,” which is less of a take, and more of a statement of fact. It’s OK to make this a baseball thing! Just make it a baseball thing. Argue about the baseball things.So here are some completely inoffensive, boring and ordinary statements about a player who is, on average, someone who helps the baseball teams who employ him. If this were a podcast or YouTube channel, it would be titled Room Temperature Glass of Tap Water. Let’s bring the appropriate energy to these opinions.All Devers wants to be is the fourth-best hitter in a ridiculously deep lineupMaybe future Red Sox greats will want to be like David Ortíz, whose voice is so recognizable at this point that you can hear it when you close your eyes. It’s at the point where you can imagine him saying anything, like, “No, Mr. Bond, I expect you to die,” even if it doesn’t come up often in a baseball context. That’s how much he’s been a part of the baseball experience over the last couple decades.Life was pretty sweet for Rafael Devers in 2018 when he was part of — but not the main character in — a World Series-winning Boston Red Sox’s lineup that starred Mookie Betts, among others. (Kevork Djansezian / Getty Images)Or think about the 2018 Red Sox championship team, which was Devers’ first full season with them. He was a 21-year-old who probably wasn’t ready to play third in the majors, but it didn’t matter as much because the team was so good around him. The team kept winning, winning, winning, all the way through the postseason. They didn’t have a single postseason series with more than one loss.While this was going on, the team spokesperson was Mookie Betts, who can do backflips and bowl 300 games and hit .346 and win the Gold Glove and the MVP. He was young and constantly exuded “Let’s play three!” energy. He was easy to pay attention to, and everyone did.Behind Betts was their designated hitter, J.D. Martinez, who crushed 43 home runs and drove in 130 runs that season. He was not doing any of the things Betts was doing, other than hitting a lot of dingers. Martinez’s most controversial quote that season was probably something like, “I’m getting kind of annoyed when people take a cold sparkling water out of the fridge without replacing it with a warm one from the box that’s right next to the fridge,” although it’s possible that I’m projecting my own troubles onto him.