None of this is that complicated.
Triston Casas got hurt. That’s what caused this mess. As is famously the case with COVID revisionism — a force potent enough to have accelerated the collapse of the country — people are far more focused on point-scoring on second-order issues (“They signed Bregman!” “They told him he was a DH!” “He has feelings!”) than dealing with the first-order problem, which is that they lost their star first baseman for the year and there’s no good way to deal with that, nor to prevent it. Shit happens, happened and is happening, and there’s a lot of hand-wringing about who has done what wrong in a situation where there’s no good way to be right. If everyone is fucking up in some way in response, and they are, it’s only because they’re all being forced to eat shit sandwiches and no one is handling it well, as you might expect. None of that, not one iota of it, changes that the fact that the simplest solution here remains the best one, and that Devers should play first base because it would help the team of which he is a part because something otherwise catastrophic happened. It really is that clear. Everyone is adjusting awkwardly to this reality, not leastwise all of us, but it remains blissfully uncomplicated to understand if you take even one step back from the keyboard’s edge.