Giants legend Will Clark is furious — not at Rafael Devers, but at Red Sox play-by-play man Will Flemming.
On his “Deuces Wild” podcast with Eric Byrnes, Clark went on an expletive-laden rant about Flemming revealing that Devers declined his offer to work with him at first base last month.
“I’m standing out there,” Clark began. “[And Giants announcer] Dave Flemming actually introduces me to his brother, Will Flemming, who is one of the Red Sox radio/TV guys, I guess. And so now he goes on some podcast … and blows this thing out of f— proportion … and here we go.”
Clark had his conversation with Flemming when the Red Sox were in San Francisco from June 20-22, shortly after Devers was traded to the Giants in a shocking blockbuster.
“I just gotta tell you right now, this is a bunch of bulls–t,” Clark added. “That’s first off. Second off … me and Raffy are fine, I’m gonna work with him whenever I get around to first base and all that. And Will Flemming? You can go f–k off, mother f—ker. You wanna go take a conversation that we’re having and then blow it out of proportion because you’re a f–king East Coast piece of s–t reporter? F–k off. And so other than that, I’m cool!”
On Boston’s WEEI radio station Monday, Fleming said: “Will Clark was there to work on ground balls with him at first base, and Raffy didn’t show up. So, that’s the person that these guys have been dealing with for a long time.”
Clark said he “completely understands” why Devers didn’t want to work with him at first base with the Red Sox in town — since the freshly traded slugger would have had to “go through all that bullsh–t, through the press and the media.”
Devers, whom the Red Sox dealt to the Giants in mid-June for pitchers Jordan Hicks, Kyle Harrison, Jose Bello and outfielder James Tibbs III, refused to play first base in Boston when the team asked.
Devers, 28, has hit .225 with two homers and nine RBIs in his first 80 at-bats in San Francisco.
He has yet to play a position besides DH with the Giants.